Fredrico Shenard Mikell was convicted of felony murder and multiple counts of armed robbery and aggravated assault arising out of an attack on six people in a home in Statesboro. He appeals from the denial of his motion for new trial1 challenging the sufficiency of the evidence and asserting other errors. For the reasons that follow, we affirm. 1. The evidence authorized the jury to find that appellant guided Kendall Worthy, Marcus Benbow and a third man to a home in Statesboro where six people were inside playing or watching a dice game. Appellant went alone to the door and, after identifying himself, asked to speak to the murder victim, Corey Walker. Visible on the floor was the money paid in by Walker and the other participants in the dice game. Appellant was well known to Walker and others in the room, including Chalandria McClouden, with whose family appellant had frequently dined. Appellant asked Walker about purchasing drugs and left after learning Walker had none. Thirty to 45 minutes later, dice game participant James Williams answered a knock on the door and was shot in the knee with a handgun as he struggled to keep out of the home a man Williams later identified as Benbow. Co-indictee Worthy then entered the home with an AK-47 assault rifle. He shot Williams in the other knee with the rifle and, as the home’s unarmed inhabitants fled the gunmen, shot McClouden in the back and legs and fatally wounded Walker. McClouden testified that, after the shots were fired, she turned toward the front door and “could see appellant and he stood there looking at me and then he took out running.” Benbow picked up the dice game money, shot Williams in the knee yet again, and then he and Worthy fled the scene, driving off without appellant.
Worthy, as part of a negotiated guilty plea deal pursuant to which he was to receive a single life sentence, testified that appellant and the other indictees came to Statesboro to commit a robbery; that appellant approached several individuals under the ruse of wanting to purchase a large amount of drugs as a means of finding someone to rob; and that Benbow, upon hearing of the victims’ gambling money, proposed robbing the victims, to which appellant agreed. Worthy testified that appellant carried the assault rifle up to the door but dropped it and ran away as Benbow struggled to get inside the home; that Worthy then joined Benbow, picked up the rifle and fired it in the home after Benbow shot victim Williams at the door; and that Worthy then ran to the car, followed by Benbow with the money from the dice game, and left town.
