Legal Opinion
Anderson v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided September 13, 2017No. S17A0894PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENHAM, Justice.
James Edwin Anderson was found guilty of felony murder and other crimes arising out of the shooting death of Franklin Ron Burch.1 For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.
Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence presented at trial shows that Burch was dating appellant’s daughter-in-law Brittany Anderson, who was involved in a divorce proceeding with appellant’s son, Edwin Anderson, Jr. Several weeks before the *75shooting, after learning that Ms. Anderson was seeing Burch, appellant called his daughter-in-law while intoxicated and left voice mail messages…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Remmer v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Alfred R. Dyer v. Arthur Calderon, Warden, of California State Prison at San QuentinCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1998
- Scott v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2012
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