POLKE v. STATE

S22A1220.

880 S.E.2d 153 (2022)

POLKE v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: October 25, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amy Lee Copeland , Rouse & Copeland, LLC, 602 Montgomery Street, Savannah, Georgia 31401, 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, John Thomas Durden, Jr. , District Attorney, Joe Grady Skeens , A.D.A., Atlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, 945 E.G. Miles Parkway, Hinesville, Georgia 31313, for Appellee.


A Tattnall County jury found Barbra Ann Polke guilty of malice murder and other crimes arising from the shooting death of her former girlfriend, Ashley Sharpe.1 Polke contends that the evidence was insufficient to support her convictions beyond a reasonable doubt and that the trial court should have...

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