Prince Christopher Brown was tried by a Chatham County jury and convicted of armed robbery,1 aggravated assault,2 and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.3 Brown appeals, contending that the evidence is insufficient to sustain his convictions, that the court below erred when it failed to exclude certain evidence as hearsay, that the court erred when it failed to grant his motion for a mistrial, that there was prosecutorial misconduct at trial, that the court gave an erroneous charge on the burden of proof, and that the court should have merged his convictions for armed robbery and aggravated assault based on his use of a deadly weapon. We find no merit in these contentions, and we affirm the judgment of conviction. 1. We first consider whether the evidence is sufficient to sustain the convictions. To this end, we ask whether any rational jury could have found proof beyond a reasonable doubt of guilt in the evidence adduced at trial, viewing that evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict. Howard v. State , 310 Ga. App. 659, 659 1 714 SE2d 255 2011. And as we consider this question, we must keep in mind that it is for the jury, not appellate judges, to assess the credibility of witnesses, weigh and draw reasonable inferences from the evidence, and resolve conflicts in the evidence. See Ferguson v. State , 307 Ga. App. 232, 233 1 704 SE2d 470 2010. So, if the record contains some competent evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt each element of the crimes of which the defendant was convicted, we must uphold the convictions, even if the evidence is controverted. Id.
Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence in this case shows that, on the afternoon of November 1, 2007, someone knocked on the door of the apartment in which the victim resided.4 The victim opened the door, and he saw Brown, whom he had seen before in the neighborhood. Brown said that someone wanted to speak with the victim, and when the victim asked who it was, Brown told the victim to wait and that Brown would bring that person to the apartment. Brown left, and then, a few minutes later, he returned to the apartment, entered it, and struck the victim in the face. Another man, Edward Shuman, followed Brown into the apartment.5 Brown pulled a gun and hit the victim about the head with the gun, striking the victim as many as forty times. According to the victim, the assault continued for ten or twenty minutes. At some point, Brown told the victim to “give it up,” and Brown took about $250 from the pocket of the victim. At another point, Shuman told Brown to kill the victim, and Brown continued to strike the victim about the head with the gun. The victim then struggled with both men for several more minutes. The victim eventually made his way to the front window of his apartment and broke it, and Brown and Shuman then left the apartment through the back door.
