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Guyton v. State

Although the state's felony murder and burglary case against the five defendants depended on accomplice testimony, the state presented additional corroborating testimony from the victim's girlfriend and cell phone records.

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Defendants Lajuan Guyton, Maurice Cooper, Frank Lewis Jones, Stanley King, and Barry Preston were convicted of felony murder and burglary in connection with the shooting death of Frederick Taylor.1 These appeals followed. Finding no error, we affirm. 1. Viewing the evidence in a light favorable to the verdict, as we are bound to do, we find the following: Defendants Guyton, Cooper, Jones, King and Preston drove from Savannah to Brunswick in a Chevrolet Tahoe. Marti Mincey went with them. Terrence White and Sukille Miller followed the Tahoe in a Chevrolet Malibu owned by Guyton’s mother. White drove the Malibu at Guyton’s request. The two groups stayed in touch by cell phone as they traveled.

When they arrived in Brunswick, the Malibu pulled past the Tahoe, stopped, and backed up. The trunk was opened revealing rifles, shotguns, pistols, masks, black clothing and bullet-proof vests. Defendants removed these items from the trunk, returned with them to the Tahoe, and followed the Malibu to the home of Frederick Taylor. The Malibu continued down the road and waited; the Tahoe was stopped outside Taylor’s house. Defendants exited the Tahoe, broke down Taylor’s door, entered the house, and fired their weapons, killing Taylor.

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