Legal Opinion
Anderson v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided September 13, 2017No. S17A0894
1Opinion of the Court
302 Ga. 74
FINAL COPY S17A0894. ANDERSON v. THE STATE. BENHAM, Justice. James Edwin Anderson was found guilty of felony murder and other crimes arising out of the shooting death of Franklin Ron Burch.1 For the reasons set forth below, we affirm. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence presented at trial shows that Burch was dating appellant’s daughter-in-law Brittany Anderson, who was involved in a divorce proceeding with appellant’s son, Edwin Anderson, Jr. Several weeks before the shooting, 1 The crimes occurred on June 29, 2011. On July 13, 2011, a Wayne County grand…
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