A Screven County jury found Tony Darnell Mock guilty of burglary,1 criminal attempt to commit burglary,2 and two counts of theft by receiving a stolen firearm.3 Mock appeals following the denial of his motion for new trial,4 arguing that the State failed to prove venue in Screven County for the burglary charge and challenging the sufficiency of the evidence as to each conviction. We reverse in part and affirm in part, for reasons that follow. We view the evidence on appeal in the light most favorable to the verdict, and no longer presume the defendant is innocent. We do not weigh the evidence or decide the witnesses’ credibility, but only determine if the evidence is sufficient to sustain the convictions. We construe the evidence and all reasonable inferences from the evidence most strongly in favor of the jury’s verdict.5 So viewed, the record shows that on February 7, 2007, Hope Cannon heard a noise outside her bedroom window at approximately 8:30 a.m. A few minutes later, she heard someone “snatching” at her back door. According to Cannon, the person “was pushing on the door real hard, but . . . didn’t get in.” Cannon looked out and saw a man walking away from her house. She opened the back door and asked the man what he wanted. The man replied that he was looking for water and then yelled to another man that Cannon did not have any water, gas, or a phone. Both men were wearing short-sleeved black shirts and brown gloves, and they were sweating profusely. Cannon told the men to leave her property, threatening to shoot them if they did not do so. One of the men fled on foot and the other fled in a car, which one of them had parked behind Cannon’s house, close enough “that they could have got on top of the car to come in her window if they had to. . . .” Cannon later identified Mock at trial as the man waiting by the car who drove off after she threatened them. Screven County Sheriff’s Deputy Kenneth Kelley responded to Cannon’s 911 call. Cannon told Kelley that “she heard someone trying to get in her kitchen door.” Cannon described the two men and told Kelley that they drove away in a four-door white sedan. Kelley put out a be on the lookout “BOLO” alert for the vehicle and its passengers.
The same day, Billie Boykin left home to go to work at approximately 7:50 a.m. Around 11:00 a.m., Boykin’s son called her at work and told her that her home had been burglarized. When Boykin arrived home, she saw that her back door had been pried open, and her bedroom had been “ransacked.” The drawers to her jewelry armoire had been pulled out and thrown on the floor, and several jewelry boxes were missing, along with some gold coins and state quarters she had been saving.
