CATO v. STATE

S18A0669.

820 S.E.2d 41 (2018)

CATO v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: October 9, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric J. Taylor, Anna Joseph Kurien, Office of the Public Defender, 100 Peachtree Street NW, Suite 1600, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, for Appellant.

Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula Khristian Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr, Attorney General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, Paul L. Howard, Jr., District Attorney, Stephany Julissa Luttrell, A.D.A., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Deputy D.A., Fulton County District Attorney's Office, 136 Pryor Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, for Appellee.


Darron Cato appeals his convictions for felony murder and a firearm offense stemming from the death of T'Shanerka Smith.1 Cato argues that the trial court committed plain error when it instructed the jury on the commission of aggravated assault — the predicate offense for the felony murder charge...

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