This appeal is from Clinton Napoleon Furlow’s convictions for murder, aggravated sexual battery, armed robbery, kidnapping with bodily injury, and five counts of kidnapping.1 The evidence at trial showed that Furlow, some days after losing his job, sought and found a handgun, obtained a bandanna and a ski-mask, and solicited several persons to join him in a robbery. He pointed out as a target for robbery the Community Action Service Center, which was the scene of the crimes involved here. He was seen near the Community Action Service Center on the day of the crimes, dressed all in black. Just before 8:00 a.m. on the day of the crimes, a female worker at the Center was accosted by a man wearing black who was armed and was wearing a red bandanna over his face. He forced her into a back room, where another female worker was lying on the floor. After taking money from the second woman, he forced them to the floor, put his hand in one employee’s pants and touched her genitals, then removed her pants and continued to touch her sexually, causing her pain and inflicting an injury to her vagina. As four other women entered the Center, he forced them into a back room. Two of those victim noticed the assailant’s distinctive eyes and testified at trial that Furlow’s eyes were like them, one describing the man’s eyes as “weird” and “unusual.” The assailant demanded money, then walked over to the woman he had fondled, said she had seen his face, and shot her in the back of the head. He then left the Center and escaped. Furlow later told a friend he had shot a woman because she saw his face.
1. The evidence at trial, though circumstantial, was sufficient to establish as fact the events set out above, to exclude every reasonable hypothesis save that of guilt, and to authorize a rational trier of fact to find Furlow guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the offenses for which he was convicted. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560 1979; Brinson v. State, 272 Ga. 345 1 529 SE2d 129 2000; Gulley v. State, 271 Ga. 337 519 SE2d 655 1999; Martin v. State, 271 Ga. 301 518 SE2d 898 1999; Mincey v. State, 237 Ga. App. 463 515 SE2d 433 1999; Ouzts v. State, 216 Ga. App. 194 453 SE2d 801 1995.
