PARKER v. STATE

S18A1589.

823 S.E.2d 313 (2019)

PARKER v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: January 22, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew K. Winchester , LAW OFFICES OF MATTHEW K. WINCHESTER, 1800 Peachtree Street, NW, Suite 430, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, Attorney for the Appellant.

Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy Attorney General, Paula Khristian Smith , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Meghan Hobbs Hill , Assistant Attorney General, DEPARTMENT OF LAW, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, Dawn Marie Baskin , A.D.A., OCMULGEE JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, Post Office Box 1209, Jones County Government Center, Gray, Georgia 31032, Stephen Andrew Bradley , District Attorney, OCMULGEE JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, 121 North Wilkinson Street, Suite 305, Milledgeville, Georgia 31061, Attorneys for the Appellee.


James Don Parker was tried by a Jones County jury and convicted of the murder of Alan Helmuth. Parker appeals, claiming that the trial court erred when it charged the jury and that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel. We see no reversible error and affirm.1

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