Thompson v. the State

McFADDEN, Presiding Judge.

After a jury trial, Cedric Thompson was convicted of three counts of aggravated battery and one count of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Thompson challenges the sufficiency of the evidence, but there was enough evidence to authorize the jury to find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. He complains of the omission of certain language from a jury instruction that the testimony of a single witness is sufficient to establish a fact, but that instruction was not objected to and did not constitute plain error. And he challenges the effectiveness of…