Garza v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, Judge.
A jury convicted Joey Allen Garza of two counts of kidnapping, four counts of false imprisonment, and one count of aggravated assault. Before this Court, he challenges the sufficiency of the evidence as to his convictions for kidnapping and false imprisonment; the trial court’s charge as to aggravated assault; the trial court’s refusal to answer the jury’s question as to whether a person could be falsely imprisoned while asleep; the sufficiency of the indictment as to the offense of aggravated assault; the trial court’s refusal to merge a conviction of kidnapping with a…
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