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- Title: Hansley v. State
- Author : Supreme Court of Georgia
- Release Date : January 15, 1996
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 49 KB
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Delery Montreal Hansley was tried before a jury and found guilty of malice murder. He appeals from the judgment of conviction and sentence of life imprisonment entered by the trial court on the jury's guilty verdict. 1 1. On the night of the homicide, Hansley and the victim, each accompanied by friends, met outside a club. After a fight started, Hansley shot and killed the victim. Hansley enumerates the denial of his motion for directed verdict, contending that the State failed to prove malice. However, the State's evidence shows that Hansley, who had fought with the victim before, left the fight to get a gun from a friend's car, yelled that the victim would not get away this time, and fired several shots at the victim, who was attempting to enter his car. This evidence was more than sufficient to prove malice. Watkins v. State, 264 Ga. 657, 658 (449 S.E.2d 834) (1994); Balom v. State, 245 Ga. 367, 368 (265 S.E.2d 21) (1980). A rational trier of fact was authorized to find proof, beyond a reasonable doubt, of Hansley's guilt of malice murder. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (99 S.C. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560) (1979).