Following a jury trial, Ronald Hawkins appeals his conviction on eleven counts of armed robbery and five counts of aggravated assault, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence. Because his four accomplices in the crimes corroborated each other as to Hawkins’s participation in the crimes, we affirm. When reviewing a defendant’s challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, we view the evidence in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdict, and the defendant no longer enjoys the presumption of innocence. Short v. State .1 We do not weigh the evidence or determine witness credibility, but only determine if the evidence was sufficient for a rational trier of fact to find the defendant guilty of the charged offenses beyond a reasonable doubt. Jackson v. Virginia .2
So viewed, the evidence shows that over a period of three days in July 2002, five individuals four males acting as the robbers —two of the males alternated —and one female acting as the getaway driver participated in a conspiracy to rob three Waffle Houses, two Red Roof Inns, one Country Suites Inn, and a pizza delivery driver, each time using a gun or guns. At the first Waffle House, three males wearing masks or facially-obscuring items robbed the store at gunpoint of more than $200 and robbed a customer at gunpoint of his wallet containing cash robberies nos. 1 and 2. At the second Waffle House, the same group with similar attire robbed the cashier at gunpoint of some $300 from the cash register and further assaulted three people by firing a gun at the store manager and pointing a gun at a customer and at another employee robbery no. 3 and aggravated assault nos. 1, 2, and 3. At the third Waffle House, three similarly-attired men bearing guns robbed the cashier of money from the store register and also robbed two other employees at gunpoint of their personal funds robbery nos. 4, 5, and 6. In response to a request from a compatriot, one of the gunmen attempted to kill one of the employees by pointing a gun at the employee’s head and pulling the trigger on the gun, which clicked but did not fire aggravated assault no. 4.
