Following trial on a six-count indictment, Torrie Antoine Lewis was convicted of armed robbery and burglary and acquitted of aggravated assault and three counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. On appeal from the denial of his motion for new trial, Lewis asserts that the state failed to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence the statements of his co-conspirator, Feandre Loggins.1 Discerning no error, we affirm. 1. Lewis essentially argues that the evidence is weak and thus does not support his conviction of armed robbery and burglary. The strength of the evidence, however, is not the relevant issue. On appeal from a criminal conviction, we view the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict and an appellant no longer enjoys the presumption of innocence. This Court determines whether the evidence is sufficient under the standard of Jackson v. Virginia ,2 and does not weigh the evidence or determine witness credibility. Any conflicts or inconsistencies in the evidence are for the jury to resolve. As long as there is some competent evidence, even though contradicted, to support each fact necessary to make out the state’s case, we must uphold the jury’s verdict.3 So viewed, the evidence shows that at 11:00 p. m. on March 18, 2009, Steven McNutt lay in bed listening to music through his headphones. There were no lights on in the house. After getting up to put away his headphones, McNutt opened his bedroom door and encountered a man, later identified as Lewis, holding a pistol. Lewis’s face was partially obscured by a shirt. Lewis demanded money, pulled back the slide in the gun and pointed it at McNutt, who retrieved his wallet and showed Lewis that there was no cash in it. A second assailant then entered the room and assured McNutt that he would not be hurt. The second man took McNutt’s cell phone, then told him to kneel down by the bed and put his face down. After the second man left McNutt’s room, McNutt heard a commotion in the hallway, followed by “Torrance, Torrance, let’s go.” The assailants left the house, and McNutt went downstairs. He saw that the front door had been kicked in so violently that the wood frame splintered and the knob gouged a hole in the wall. McNutt also saw that a television was missing. McNutt identified Lewis in court as the man who held the gun on him.
Lewis gave a statement to police admitting that he entered the house; that McNutt spoke to him; that Loggins and another man, Quameik Aziz, pushed in the door and took the television; and that Lewis ran out the door after talking to McNutt. Lewis and Loggins made incriminating statements to Shuntivia Campbell, who gave a recorded statement to Athens-Clarke County Police detective Charles Ivey. Campbell testified at trial but contradicted her recorded statement, and it was introduced through Ivey’s testimony. According to Ivey, Campbell stated that she was driving Lewis and Loggins home one day in late March when they asked her to stop at a house, which they identified, to “pick up a TV.” Campbell told them that she wanted “nothing to do with that,” and she took them home. Later, she returned and saw the police at the house that they had identified. Lewis and Loggins told Campbell that they had just “hit a lick.” They stated that they kicked in the door, saw a man, pointed a gun at his head, and went through his wallet. Lewis stated that he was carrying the gun, and he showed it to Campbell. The men told her that they hid the TV in the bushes, retrieved it later, and sold it to someone. They also stated that they took the man’s cell phone and that they had covered their faces with their arms.
