Brantley v. State

Phipps, Judge.

At a bench trial, Thurbert Brantley was convicted of disorderly conduct by reason of having uttered fighting words to Raymond Barksdale. In this appeal of his conviction, Brantley challenges the sufficiency of the evidence. We find the evidence sufficient and affirm.

Under OCGA § 16-11-39 (a) (3),

[a] person commits the offense of disorderly conduct when such person . . . [w]ithout provocation, uses to or of another person in such other person’s presence, opprobrious or abusive words which by their very utterance tend to incite to an immediate breach of the peace, that is to say,…