Banks v. State

Eldridge, Judge.

A Butts County jury convicted Michael Banks of two counts of armed robbery, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. The charges arose from Banks’ participation in the carjacking of a 1992 Ford Mustang, during which Banks and co-defendant Derrez White followed the Mustang in their car; each fired several rounds from his automatic weapon into the driver’s window of the Mustang, hitting both the driver and the passenger; and, when the car stopped and the occupants fled into some nearby woods, Banks and White took the Mustang in order to…