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Reynolds v. State

The undercover officer's testimony that he purchased methamphetamine from the defendant in a restaurant parking lot in Hall county established venue.

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A Hall County grand jury returned an indictment charging Roxanne Reynolds with the sale of methamphetamine. Reynolds pled not guilty to the charge and was tried before a jury. The jury found Reynolds guilty of the indicted offense of selling methamphetamine. The trial court imposed a sentence of fourteen years, six of which are to be served in confinement and the remainder on probation. Reynolds appeals from her conviction, arguing that the trial court erred in refusing to direct a verdict of acquittal at the close of the case-in-chief on the basis that the state had failed to prove venue in Hall County beyond a reasonable doubt. Reynolds concedes in her brief that the state introduced rebuttal testimony establishing venue in Hall County, but she asks us to ignore that testimony. We can not, however, ignore such evidence.

“A motion for a directed verdict of acquittal should be granted only when there is no conflict in the evidence and the evidence with all reasonable deductions and inferences therefrom demands a verdict of acquittal as a matter of law.”1 On appeal from the denial of a motion for directed verdict of acquittal, the reviewing court is not limited to considering only evidence presented in the case-in-chief, but may consider all the evidence in the case and must consider that evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict.2

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