Following a jury trial, Alfred Morris was convicted of felony murder and various other offenses in connection with the armed robbery and shooting death of Randy Sample during a failed drug deal.1 Morris was also convicted of the aggravated assault of Torry Little, a man who was also involved in the drug deal. Morris contends on appeal that the State improperly failed to disclose exculpatory evidence to the defense, and that his trial counsel was ineffective. We affirm. 1. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the record shows that Morris set up a purported drug deal in which Little and Sample were supposed to purchase $12,000 of high-grade marijuana from him. On March 25, 2006, Morris invited Sample and Little to an apartment in DeKalb County, and they all sat down in the kitchen of the apartment. Morris offered Sample and Little an opportunity to smoke some of the marijuana so that they could sample the quality of the drug that they were going to buy. Morris repeatedly requested that the money for the drugs be counted. Morris started to count the money with Sample, then Morris opened the door to the outside and three men with guns, among them co-defendants Michael Stevens and Shaheed Huff, entered the kitchen. Sample tried to run away when he saw the men with the guns, but Stevens shot him in the back. The bullet entered Sample’s abdomen, which resulted in internal bleeding, but much of Sample’s blood was contained within his body due to the nature of his wound. The armed men then stole the drug money and instructed Little to remove Sample from the apartment. Little and one of the armed men dragged Sample down the apartment steps and to Little’s truck as Morris watched them from the apartment. Little attempted to drive Sample to a hospital, but could not find one. Little called 911 from a pay phone, and a police officer and an ambulance were sent to his location. A responding officer noticed that there was very little blood in Little’s truck, considering the fact that Sample had recently been shot. Sample was rushed to the hospital, where he later died.
The evidence was sufficient to enable a rational trier of fact to find Morris guilty of all the crimes for which he was convicted. Jackson v. Virginia , 443 U.S. 307 99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560 1979.
