Williams v. Georgia
Annotate this CaseIn 2016, a jury found Edwin Williams guilty of felony murder and criminal attempt to commit armed robbery in connection with the death of Tyler Johnson. Williams was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole. He appealed the trial court’s denial of his amended motion for new trial, asserting that the evidence was insufficient to convict him as a party to the crime. Finding that the evidence was sufficient, the Georgia Supreme Court affirmed most of the judgment but vacated a portion of the sentence and remanded for resentencing. A separate sentence for the criminal attempt to commit armed robbery was not authorized because that count merged with the felony murder count as a matter of law.
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