A jury found Janice Renee Wood guilty of entering an automobile with the intent to commit a theft in violation of OCGA § 16-8-18. Following the denial of her amended motion for new trial, Wood appeals, asserting that the evidence was insufficient to sustain her conviction and that the trial court erred in allowing the admission of certain hearsay evidence. Wood also contends that she received ineffective assistance of trial counsel. For the following reasons, we affirm. Construed in favor of the verdict, the evidence showed that the victim was at his home one night in bed when he heard a noise. The victim looked outside and noticed that the toolbox and cordless drill he had sitting on the porch were missing. The victim went to his bedroom to put on a pair of pants when he heard a noise outside his bedroom window. He picked up his cell phone and a pellet pistol and walked out of his front door and around the side of his home. As the victim rounded the corner, he observed someone stepping out of the back of his van. The victim told the person to get on the ground, but instead the person attempted to run down the driveway. The victim testified that he grabbed and tackled the individual and “then they started saying, I’m pregnant, you’re going to kill my baby. And I realized then that it was a female.” The victim identified Wood at trial as the person he saw in the back of his van. The police officer who arrived on the scene found Wood being physically restrained by the victim in front of the driveway. He noticed that the van’s doors were ajar and that a drill, some tools and some all weather boots were sitting on a retaining wall next to the van.
1. OCGA § 16-8-18 provides: that “If any person shall enter any automobile or other motor vehicle with the intent to commit a theft or a felony, he shall be guilty of a felony.” Construing the above evidence as we must in the light most favorable to the verdict under the standard of Jackson v. Virginia , 443 U. S. 307 99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560 1979, we conclude that it was sufficient to sustain Wood’s conviction for entering an automobile with the intent to commit a theft. See Williams v. State , 273 Ga. App. 213, 215 1 614 SE2d 834 2005.
