Following a bench trial, Ryan Alexander Mays was convicted of three counts of burglary, two counts of armed robbery, and possession of a firearm during the commission of crime. The trial court denied Mays’s motion for a new trial and thereafter granted him an out-of-time appeal.1 On appeal, Mays contends that the evidence is insufficient to sustain his convictions and that the trial court erred in admitting certain photographs into evidence. For the reasons that follow, we affirm. On appeal from a bench trial resulting in a criminal conviction, we view all evidence in the light most favorable to the trial court’s judgment of conviction, and the defendant no longer enjoys the presumption of innocence. We do not re-weigh testimony, determine witness credibility, or address assertions of conflicting evidence; our role is to determine whether the evidence presented is sufficient for a rational trier of fact to find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Citations and punctuation omitted. Trujillo v. State , __Ga. App.__, 1 Case No. A10A0338, decided July 7, 2010. So viewed, the evidence shows that a series of burglaries occurred in Rockdale County between March and April 2007. The first burglary occurred at a residence located at 2180 Hampton Trail. The Hampton Trail property owner testified that in March 2007, two young males, who were carrying backpacks, came to her residence. One of the males approached her and asked for a random person. When she informed the male that he had the wrong house, he and his companion walked away. Two weeks later, on the evening of March 12, 2007, the property owner and her daughter returned to their home and discovered that the front door had been forced open and the house had been ransacked. They called the police and reported that several items had been stolen during the burglary, including three laptop computers, two digital cameras, a video camera, and jewelry. The property owner testified that she did not authorize anyone to enter and take the items from her residence.
Thereafter, on April 20, 2007 a burglary occurred at the residence located at 3311 Haverhill Court. The property owner recalled that before she left for work that morning, she observed a black Mercedes vehicle with two young male occupants parked in the cul-de-sac near her home. She drove behind the vehicle and noticed that its license tag was covered. As she approached the vehicle, the driver started the engine and drove slowly to a nearby middle school. Later that day, when the property owner’s son returned home from school, he discovered that the garage door was open and the house had been burglarized. The french doors in the back of the house had been forced open and several items had been stolen, including video game systems, video games, a camera, a DVD player, and a collection of knives. The property owner further discovered that one of the burglars had left behind a backpack and a student’s hall pass bearing the name of “Christopher Peeples.” The property owner testified that she had not authorized anyone to enter and take the property from her residence.
