Turner v. State

Evidence that the defendant forcibly handcuffed his girlfriend during a dispute wherein she threatened to tear up his POST papers, which were necessary for his anticipated promotion within the Dekalb County Sheriff's Office, supported the defendant's conviction for simple battery.

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Trenell Turner appeals from his conviction of simple battery, a misdemeanor.1 He contends insufficient evidence supports his conviction and that the trial court erred by refusing to give several requested charges. We disagree and affirm. 1. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the record shows that Turner and his live-in girlfriend argued about his plans to attend a study group that included three women. The record shows that Turner was employed as a detention officer with the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office and was studying to obtain a promotion to become a deputy. The girlfriend acknowledged that before this incident, she had never experienced problems with Turner losing his temper in the six years she had dated him.

After a “pretty loud” argument about Turner’s study plans, the defendant took a shower as he prepared to go to the study group. When he got out of the shower, he “immediately started accusing” the girlfriend of taking his car keys. She denied taking his keys, and Turner began “going through her things, through her drawers, throwing everything out all over the room, on the dresser, on the bed.” When he did not stop after she asked him to do so, she admitted that she threatened to “go where his papers was in the kitchen and tear them up.” By papers, she meant his papers for the POST2 training that she knew “were critical to his completion” of the training. When he still did not stop, she went into the kitchen and took his papers out of a notebook and placed them on the table.

Turner v. State

Evidence that the defendant forcibly handcuffed his girlfriend during a dispute wherein she threatened to tear up his POST papers, which were necessary for his anticipated promotion within the Dekalb County Sheriff's Office, supported the defendant's conviction for simple battery.

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