GA 16-11-108 - GA 16-11-108

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Offense as predicate to felony-murder conviction. - Offense of misuse of a firearm while hunting can serve as the predicate felony to a felony murder conviction. Chapman v. State, 266 Ga. 356 , 467 S.E.2d 497 (1996). Evidence of motive and intent. - Trial court's admission of evidence of writing on defendant's bedroom wall for the purpose of showing defendant's motive for killing defendant's brother in a case where defendant shot and killed the brother while the two were out hunting and claimed it was an accident was at most harmless error since the offense on which defendant was convicted, felony murder by misusing a firearm while hunting, and its underlying predicate offense of consciously disregarding a substantial and unjustifiable risk, did not require a motive or i...