Johnson v. Georgia
Annotate this CaseAppellant Raphael Johnson was convicted of the 2013 malice murder of Frederick Burke, the 2013 felony murder of James Cornelius, and other crimes in connection with a shooting incident at a “gambling house,” and the aggravated battery of Ahmed Rayner in connection with another shooting at a restaurant a week later. In his appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court, Appellant contended: (1) the evidence presented at his trial was legally insufficient to support his convictions for the aggravated battery of Rayner; (2) that the trial court’s jury instruction on aggravated assault constituted plain error; and (3) that the trial court abused its discretion by concluding that evidence of another shooting incident that occurred a few hours before the gambling house shootings was admissible as intrinsic evidence. The Supreme Court rejected these contentions and affirmed Appellant’s convictions, except for his conviction for possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, which was vacated to correct a merger error.
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