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Final Copy 289 Ga. 498 S11A0303. JOHNSON v. THE STATE. NAHMIAS, Justice. Lyndon B. Johnson, Jr., appeals his convictions for felony murder and other crimes in connection with the shooting death of Brandon Todd. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.1 1. The evidence at trial, viewed in the light most favorable to the

verdict, showed the following. Johnson and Jimmy Teemer met the victim in the parking lot of a motel in Albany, Georgia. The victim revealed that he was traveling alone, and Johnson and Teemer decided to rob him. They went to a motel room occupied by co-defendant Patrick Jackson and his girlfriend, Shantoria Martin, and told them of the plan. Jackson gave Teemer a .22 caliber handgun and a black shirt that Teemer wore over his head during the robbery.

The crimes occurred on November 29, 2007. On December 17, 2008, a D ougherty County grand jury indicted Johnson for felony murder predicated on aggravated assault and/or conspiracy to commit armed robbery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault with intent to rob, possession of a firearm during com mission of a felony, and conspiracy to commit armed robbery. On January 16, 2009, Johnson was convicted of all charges after a five-day trial. The trial court sentenced Johnson to life in prison for felony murder plus five years consecutive for the firearm conviction, and the other convictions merged. On February 2, 2009, Johnson filed a motion for new trial, which he amended on February 15, 2010. The trial court summarily denied the motion on September 17, 2010, and Johnson filed a timely notice of appeal. The case was docketed in this Court for the January 2011 Term and submitted for decision on the briefs.

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Johnson changed clothes, leaving his brown jumpsuit in the room. Martin later testified against Johnson at trial. Both Teemer and the victim were soon found dead from gunshots

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