Stoudemire v. State

Benham, Justice.

Annie Lee Stoudemire files her appeal from a conviction of felony murder (OCGA § 16-5-1 (c)), and possession of a knife during the commission of a felony. OCGA § 16-11-106 (b) (l).1

1. We first address the issue of the sufficiency of the evidence. The jury was authorized to find that during the early morning hours of June 4, 1989, Annie Lee Stoudemire was engaged in an altercation with her husband, Randy Lamar Stoudemire,2 and that she obtained a butcher knife from the kitchen and stabbed her husband five times causing his death. Therefore, we find that the evidence was…