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Winfield v. State

The defendant entered the victim's hotel room and severely beat him to collect a drug debt and teach him a lesson and the victim died from his injuries.

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Following a jury trial, Robert Orlando Winfield was found guilty of felony murder and aggravated assault in connection with the February 6, 2005 beating death of Timothy Hyatt.1 Winfield contends on appeal that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict, that the trial court erred by admitting certain photographic evidence, and that his trial counsel was ineffective. For the following reasons, we affirm. 1. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the record reveals that on February 6, 2005, Winfield went to the Friendship Motel in Columbus, Georgia with two compatriots to collect a drug debt owed by Hyatt, and to “teach Hyatt a lesson.” Winfield and one of his companions forcibly entered Hyatt’s room and severely beat him. Hyatt died as a result of his injuries.

This evidence was sufficient to enable a rational trier of fact to find Winfield guilty of all of the crimes for which he was convicted beyond a reasonable doubt. Jackson v. Virginia , 443 U. S. 307 99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560 1979; OCGA § 16-2-21 “Any party to a crime who did not directly commit the crime may be indicted, tried, convicted, and punished for commission of the crime upon proof that the crime was committed and that he was a party thereto”.

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