Appellant Reginald Ivan Hendricks was convicted of malice murder, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and conspiracy to commit trafficking in cocaine in connection with the homicide of Andres Gomez.1 He now appeals the judgment entered on those convictions, contending the evidence was insufficient to authorize the convictions, taking issue with several evidentiary rulings and the limitation of his closing argument to one hour, and claiming trial counsel did not provide him with effective assistance of counsel. 1. A motel guest who heard gunshots and saw two men running away from a vehicle in the motel’s parking lot found Andres Gomez shot to death in Gomez’s Ford Explorer. He had suffered three gunshot wounds, two to the left side of the back of his neck and one to the top of the back of his left shoulder. Based on the entry wounds and the trajectory of the bullets, the forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy of the victim testified the most likely scenario was that the victim had been shot by someone using his left hand and sitting in the vehicle’s backseat. A firearms expert also testified the shots were fired from the back seat at close range to the victim. A cellular phone belonging to appellant was found in the back seat of the victim’s vehicle. In a videotaped interview with police detectives after his arrest, appellant initially denied any knowledge of the murder and stated his cellular phone had been lost or stolen the night the victim was killed. Eventually, appellant told investigating officers he and others were supposed to be purchasing a kilogram of cocaine from the victim, and that he had been in the back seat of the victim’s vehicle from where he had seen the front seat passenger shoot the victim. It was noted that appellant’s right hand had significant scarring from having been burned when he was a toddler. The evidence presented by the State was sufficient for a rational trier of fact to find appellant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of malice murder, possession of a firearm in the commission of a crime, and conspiracy to commit trafficking in cocaine. Jackson v. Virginia , 443 U.S. 307 99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560 1979.
2. Appellant contends the State’s circumstantial evidence does not exclude the reasonable hypothesis that he had no prior knowledge of a cocaine sale and was merely present at the scene of the murder. However, questions as to the reasonableness of hypotheses are generally to be decided by the jury, and where the jury is authorized to find that the evidence, though circumstantial, was sufficient to exclude every reasonable hypothesis save that of guilt, that finding will not be disturbed unless the verdict of guilty is insupportable as a matter of law. Foster v. State , 273 Ga. 34 1 537 SE2d 659 2000. The jury being so authorized, and its finding of guilt not being “insupportable as a matter of law,” we decline to disturb the judgment entered on the guilty verdict.
