Perkins v. State

Summary

The court affirmed Perkins’s convictions, holding that the evidence was sufficient to support the aggravated-assault and burglary convictions. It also held that the trial court properly denied a mistrial, did not abuse its discretion in admitting the challenged photographs, and that Perkins failed to establish ineffective assistance of counsel. The court concluded that any assumed evidentiary error was harmless and that counsel’s jury-instruction decisions were either adequately covered by the instructions or objectively reasonable.