Georgia Court of Appeals, 2018

COATES v. the STATE.

COATES v. the STATE.
Georgia Court of Appeals · Decided September 27, 2018 · Barnes
819 S.E.2d 687; 347 Ga. App. 390 (South Eastern Reporter, Second Series)

COATES v. the STATE.

Opinion

Barnes, Presiding Judge.

*390 Hubert Coates was convicted of one count of possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and four counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The trial court sentenced Coates separately on each count, with the sentences to run consecutively. Coates filed a motion for new trial and to amend his sentence, which the trial court denied. Coates appealed, contending that the trial court erred in failing to merge his four firearm convictions. In Coates v. State , 342 Ga. App. 148 , 802 S.E.2d 65 (2017), we affirmed Coates' convictions and sentences. However, in Coates v. State , --- Ga. ----, 818 S.E.2d 622 , 2018 WL 4054930 , (Case No. S17G1949, decided Aug. 27, 2018), the Supreme Court reversed this Court's decision, vacated *391 Coates' convictions and sentences for the four counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and remanded for the trial court to convict and sentence Coates on only one of those counts. Therefore, we vacate our earlier opinion and adopt the opinion of the Supreme Court as our own.

Judgment vacated in part and case remanded with direction.

McMillian and Mercier, JJ., concur.

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