Lopez v. State

311 Ga. 269

FINAL COPY S21A0322. LOPEZ v. THE STATE. PETERSON, Justice. Fernando Lopez appeals his conviction for malice murder for the stabbing death of Corey Williams.1 Lopez argues that the trial court admitted improper hearsay evidence against him: Williams’s dying statements describing the stabbing and his assailant and Williams’s statements describing his previous and intended future drug sales with Lopez. But the statements about the attack were admissible under the excited utterance hearsay exception, most of 1 The crimes took place on January 26, 2012. On December 13, 2016, a DeKalb…