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A Douglas County jury found Keith Short guilty of kidnapping with bodily injury, armed robbery, hijacking a motor vehicle, aggravated sodomy, and rape. In fifteen enumerations of error, Short challenges the sufficiency of the evidence, the admission of certain evidence, and the trial court’s rulings with respect to various jury charges. We affirm. 1. ” ‘On appeal from a criminal conviction, the evidence must be construed in the light most favorable to the verdict, and the defendant no longer enjoys a presumption of innocence.’ “ 1 We do not weigh the evidence or resolve issues of witness credibility, but merely determine whether the evidence was sufficient to find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.2

Viewed in this manner, the evidence shows that the victim was in the parking lot of her boyfriend’s Douglasville apartment complex around midnight on June 2, 1995. The two planned to drive to Florida that night, and she began moving her luggage from her car to his truck. At that point, two men came around the front of the truck and another approached the victim from behind, placing a gun in her back. The gunman told her to empty her pockets, while the other two searched her car. The gunman then obtained the victim’s car keys, gave them to the other men, pushed her into the back seat of her car, and got in with her. The other two men jumped in the front seat, and one drove the car from the apartment complex.

 
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