Taylor v. State

MlKELL, Presiding Judge.

A Bulloch County jury found Terry Lavon Taylor guilty of one count of the sale of cocaine. Taylor appeals the denial of his motionfor a new trial, arguing that because the state did not show that the crime occurred in Bulloch County, it failed to prove venue. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

The Georgia Constitution requires that venue in all criminal cases must be laid in the county in which the crime allegedly was committed. On appeal, we review a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence of venue “in a light most favorable to support the verdict and…