Lindsey v. State, S99A1000.
| Decision Date | 18 October 1999 |
| Docket Number | No. S99A1000.,S99A1000. |
| Citation | 271 Ga. 657,522 S.E.2d 459 |
| Parties | LINDSEY v. The STATE. |
| Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
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Joseph R. Neal, Jr., Augusta, for appellant.
Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Charles R. Sheppard, Michael S. Carlson, Assistant District Attorneys, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
Appellant Lorenzo Dexter Lindsey was convicted of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, criminal damage to property and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime arising from the shooting death of Rosa Barnes and wounding of Walter Thomas.1 Lindsey appeals from his convictions and we reverse.
1. In his first enumeration of error, Lindsey contends the State presented insufficient circumstantial evidence to sustain his convictions. To warrant a conviction on circumstantial evidence, the evidence must exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save the guilt of the accused. OCGA § 24-4-6. Whether the evidence excludes every other reasonable hypothesis except that of guilt is a jury question. White v. State, 263 Ga. 94, 97(1), 428 S.E.2d 789 (1993).
The evidence presented at trial was sufficient to sustain Lindsey's convictions. Witnesses observed three assailants in a white box-shaped car drive by and fire multiple gunshots into the residence of Rosa Barnes. Barnes was struck in the chest and killed; Walter Thomas, who was outside the house, was wounded. Co-defendant Terry Holmes provided a statement to police in which he stated that on the night of the crimes he, Lindsey, and co-defendant Theodore Allen were driving around in a white Toronado. While driving, Lindsey mentioned they were going to commit a drive-by shooting. Later, they stopped at a gas station where Holmes exited the car because he was too intoxicated to drive. Holmes told police a third individual then got in the driver's seat and the three men drove away. A few minutes later, they returned and told Holmes to move the car to the railroad tracks. A gas can was in the car when Holmes got in. Holmes got the car stuck near the railroad tracks and abandoned it there. Other witnesses corroborated the fact that Holmes had been driving a white Toronado and that there was a gas can in the back of the car.
Lavert Allen, co-defendant Allen's uncle, testified that Lindsey called him at 2:00 a.m. on July 11, 1997 to help pull a stuck car. Lavert Allen further stated that he used his truck to pull out a white Riviera or Toronado, the pulling bent the car's rear bumper, and Lindsey and co-defendant Allen were present while the car was being pulled out. Later, a railroad employee saw a white car with two people inside and a bumper dragging off the back come over the railroad crossing. Approximately 30 minutes later, he noticed the car was on fire. A witness who saw the white Toronado just before the gunfire began identified the burned car as the one he saw on the night of the shooting. Crime scene technicians found a cartridge casing in the burned car which appeared to be the same type as used to shoot Barnes and Thomas. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, we find the evidence was sufficient to convict Lindsey of the crimes charged beyond a reasonable doubt. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979).
2. Lindsey contends the trial court erred in admitting over objection the hearsay testimony of Darrell Moore in which he stated that after the shooting and while he was talking to...
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