A Bibb County jury convicted Kendal Bernard Cornelius of one count of aggravated battery and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Cornelius appeals challenging the sufficiency of the evidence to support his convictions for aggravated assault and contending he was denied effective assistance of counsel. Finding no error, we affirm. We view the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict to determine whether any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crimes beyond a reasonable doubt. We address only the sufficiency of the evidence, and do not weigh the evidence or determine the credibility of the witnesses. As long as there is some evidence, even though controverted, to support each necessary element of the State’s case, the jury’s verdict will be upheld. Carter v. State , 246 Ga. App. 891 1 543 SE2d 42 1991; see also Jackson v. Virginia , 443 U. S. 307 99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560 1979. Maynor v. State , 257 Ga. App. 151, 151-152 570 SE2d 428 2002. So viewed, the record reflects that in October 2002, Cornelius provided $200 worth of cocaine to John Jerry Hunt in Macon. As part of the transaction, Hunt and his fiancee, Lana Renee Lambert, drove Cornelius to a local Western Union, ostensibly to pick up the money to pay Cornelius. On the pretext that Lambert would go into the Western Union and get the money, Hunt had Cornelius get out of his single-cab pickup truck in order to let Lambert out of the vehicle. However, Hunt then drove off, leaving Cornelius on the street and unpaid.
Hunt returned to Macon to buy cocaine on December 16, 2002. Lambert again accompanied him, this time bringing her seven-year old daughter as well. During the day, Hunt twice bought drugs in the neighborhood where he had gotten drugs from Cornelius in October. That evening, Hunt, along with Lambert and her daughter, drove back to the same neighborhood to make a third purchase. After initially circling the block, Hunt brought his truck to a stop when two men approached him from the curb of the street. At that point, Cornelius stepped between the two men, said “Remember me,” and fired a handgun at close range four or five times into the cab of the truck. Hunt was hit, and as a result, was paralyzed in one of his legs. Hunt pushed Lambert’s daughter to the floorboard of his truck as the shooting took place. Neither Lambert nor her daughter were hit.
