Legal Opinion
Bighams v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided November 17, 2014No. S14A1464, S14A1465PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NAHMIAS, Justice.
Ervin Bighams and Jordan Crear appeal their convictions for felony murder, two counts of aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm arising from a shooting that killed Travis Tyson, injured Tony Reeves, and threatened Larry Reeves. We affirm in both cases.
1. (a) Viewed in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdicts, the evidence presented at trial showed the following. On the night of July 2, 2004, Crear drove his Chevrolet Avalanche truck from his home in Kingsland, Georgia, to Homerville, where he picked up his brother-in-law Bighams and Von Cleary, Bighams’s…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Vega v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2009
- State v. DempseySupreme Court of Georgia · 2012
- Chapman v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2012
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