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Hayes v. State

The defendant strangled the victim, burned her body and dumped it in a lake.

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The appellant, Phillip Hayes, was convicted of the malice murder of Mia Austin and of family violence battery.1 On appeal, Hayes contends, among other things, that the evidence is insufficient to support his convictions, and that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence a statement he made to the police. We conclude, however, that the evidence is sufficient to support the convictions, and that the trial court did not err in its rulings on the issues raised by Hayes on appeal. Accordingly, we affirm Hayes’s convictions.

1. On August 3, 2000, Mia Austin did not come home from work. The next day, when her car was in the driveway of her apartment complex but she was not at home, her mother and sister reported her missing. On August 7, a body was pulled from Chestnut Lake in Dekalb County. The body was burned beyond recognition, and was wrapped in a comforter, bound with an electrical cord, and weighed down with a cinder block. The cause of death was strangulation. Through dental records, the medical examiner identified the body as Mia Austin’s.

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