Court Opinion

ID: 9573382
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:54:02.283086+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:36:57.031999
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Hines, Justice,
concurring specially.
For the reasons set forth in my dissent in State v. Marlowe, 277 Ga. 383 (589 SE2d 69) (2003), I disagree with the analysis in Division 2 of the opinion that Williams’s conviction for possession of a firearm during the commission of aggravated assault must be vacated because it is based on “the continuous possession of a single gun in an attack against a single victim.” However, this possession conviction should be set aside because the predicate crime of aggravated assault merges as a matter of fact into the malice murder.