WORTHEM v. STATE

No. S98A1632.

509 S.E.2d 922 (1999)

270 Ga. 469

WORTHEM v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied February 8, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gayle Denise Bacon, Decatur, for Derrick Worthem.

John Thomas Morgan III, Dist. Atty., Barbara Blaine Conroy, Robert M. Coker, Carol M. Kayser, Asst. Dist. Attys., Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Atty. Gen., Angelica M. Woo, Asst. Atty. Gen., Paula K. Smith, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Department of Law, Atlanta, for the State.


SEARS, Justice.

Appellant Derrick Worthem appeals his conviction for the felony murder of an Atlanta convenience store clerk,1 claiming that the evidence presented at trial failed to support the conviction, and that the trial court erred in failing to charge the jury on voluntary manslaughter. Finding no merit to either of these enumerations, we affirm.

The evidence introduced at trial established that one morning in October 1996...

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