Opinion
65483.
DECIDED APRIL 11, 1983.
Armed robbery, etc. Bulloch Superior Court. Before Judge Hawkins.
Robert S. Lanier, Jr., for appellant.
J. Lane Johnston, District Attorney, N. Jackson Cotney, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.
On November 9, 1981 appellant was tried before a jury and convicted of two counts of armed robbery and two counts of aggravated assault. His motion for new trial was denied on October 1, 1982.
1. As his first enumeration of error, appellant raises the general grounds. After reviewing the evidence of record in the light most favorable to the jury's verdict, we conclude that any rational trier of fact could have found the appellant guilty of all counts of armed robbery and aggravated assault beyond a reasonable doubt. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 ( 99 S.C. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560) (1979); see Watkins v. State, 249 Ga. 3 ( 287 S.E.2d 24) (1982); Hurt v. State, 158 Ga. App. 722 ( 282 S.E.2d 192) (1981).
2. Appellant next contends that the trial court erred "to the substantial prejudice of the appellant" in the charge to the jury. Argument presented on this point is vague and sketchy and comes perilously close to lacking specificity sufficient to be addressed by this court. See generally Pitts v. State, 197 Ga. 317 (2) ( 28 S.E.2d 864) (1944); Jackson v. State, 181 Ga. 753 (1) ( 184 S.E. 279) (1936). Although his brief contains no reference to any inclusion or omission upon which his assertion of resulting prejudice is based, appellant apparently contends that the charge was fatally defective in the area of criminal intent and the state's burden of proof regarding such intent. We disagree. "The court fully charged on reasonable doubt and presumption of innocence, and when viewed as a whole sufficiently established the state's burden of proof." Huffman v. State, 149 Ga. App. 464, 465 ( 254 S.E.2d 489) (1979); Smith v. State, 159 Ga. App. 349 (2) ( 283 S.E.2d 324) (1981).
The trial court further charged on voluntary intoxication and insanity, and such instructions were supported by the evidence of record. "A trial court's charge to the jury must be read as a whole in determining whether the charge contained error." Wood v. State, 243 Ga. 273, 274 ( 253 S.E.2d 751) (1979); Ellison v. State, 158 Ga. App. 419 (2) ( 280 S.E.2d 371) (1981). Although not a model of erudition, "[t]he charge was legally correct and sufficiently clear to be understood by jurors of ordinary capacity and understanding and that is all that is required." Blackman v. State, 158 Ga. App. 463, 464 ( 280 S.E.2d 872) (1981).
3. For the foregoing reasons, the trial court's denial of appellant's motion for new trial was not error.
Judgment affirmed. Quillian, P. J., and Sognier, J., concur.