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Williams v. State

Testimony from the first defendant's uncle properly authenticated a note, which the first defendant gave to his uncle while he was in jail.

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Joseph Williams and Carlos Walker were convicted in 1998 of malice murder, armed robbery, burglary, aggravated assault, and related offenses for their roles in the robbery and shooting death of Terrance Griffin.1 They appeal, arguing that there was insufficient evidence to corroborate the testimony of their accomplice. Finding no merit to their contentions, we affirm the convictions. 1. The evidence presented at trial showed that on January 13, 1998, one of Terrance Griffin’s friends found him dead in his Burke County home. Griffin had been killed by a single 9-millimeter shot to the chest.

An accomplice to the crimes, Tracy Carter, who had an outstanding warrant against him at the time of the crimes for a previous robbery of Griffin, turned himself in shortly after the murder. He testified at trial that on the night in question, the accomplices, including Walker, Williams, Carter, Theodore Beard, and another man, concocted a plan to steal drugs from Griffin. The group met in a cotton field near Girard, Georgia, where all the accomplices except Beard got into one car and proceeded to Griffin’s house. Beard remained in the cotton field until the others returned.

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