STEWART v. STATE

S21A0074.

858 S.E.2d 456 (2021)

STEWART v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: May 17, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian Steel , The Steel Law Firm, P.C., 1800 Peachtree Street, N.W., Suite 300, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, for Appellant.

Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy Attorney General, Paula Khristian Smith , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Michael Alexander Oldham , Assistant Attorney General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, Oliver Jackson Browning, Jr. , District Attorney, Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, Polk County Courthouse #1, 100 Prior Street, Room 204, Cedartown, Georgia 30125, for Appellee.


A jury found James Stewart guilty of felony murder and aggravated assault in the shooting death of his girlfriend, Wendy Johnson. Stewart contends that the trial court committed plain error in giving an improper sequential verdict form to the jury and that his counsel was ineffective for failing to object to the verdict form...

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