• Cannon v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-11-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dell Jackson, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, S. Taylor Johnston (Department of Law), Atlanta; Anna Green Cross, Sherry Boston, Gerald Mason (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: S17A1127

    The evidence supported defendant's convictions for felony murder and aggravated assault after he stabbed a man in the neck in a restaurant because he believed the man owed him money and defendant did not prove his ineffective assistance of counsel claims.