Rogers v. State

Weltner, Justice.

James Harold Rogers was tried along with Ronnie Dey-ton Mooneyham for the murder of Douglas McArthur Archer. Mooneyham was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Rogers was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to 20 years in prison. The circumstances of the homicide are set forth in full in Mooneyham v. State, 251 Ga. 404 (306 SE2d 272) (1983), and need not be repeated here.

Rogers presents four enumerations of error. The first, second, and fourth deal with the trial court’s rulings upon motions testing the sufficiency of the evidence. The third…