SIMMONS v. STATE

S22A0620.

880 S.E.2d 125 (2022)

SIMMONS v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: October 25, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Lawrence Persse , Attorney At Law, 219 West Bryan Street, Suite 306, Savannah, Georgia 31401, Robert L. Sirianni, Jr. , George William Thomas , Brownstone, P.A., PO Box 2047, Winter Park, Florida 32790, Attorneys for the Appellant.

Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy Attorney General, Paula Khristian Smith , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Emily Rebecca Polk , Assistant Attorney General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, Robert German, Jr. , A.D.A., Charles Keith Higgins , Benjamin E. Gephardt , Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, 701 H Street, Box 301, Brunswick, Georgia 31520, Attorneys for the Appellee.


After a jury trial in 2017, Troy Simmons was convicted of felony murder and other crimes arising out of the shooting death of Wendell Lee and the aggravated assault of April Tongol.1 On appeal, Simmons claims that: (1) the evidence was insufficient to sustain...

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