case they must have concluded the agg assault was not something william bryan did. but when they got to the aggravated assault with a car, and that s scaring the heck out of somebody with a giant vehicle, that can be aggravated assault. and if that can be aggravated assault and if a death results, then you can have felony murder. so the jury did conclude that william roddie bryan was committing an aggravated assault. i thought that was a likely outcome, that they would either conclude that it would be a felony that led to death. explain felony murder. essentially an unintended murder that happens as a result of a dangerous felony. in this case there were several predicate felonies charged. they appear later in the indictment. false imprisonment, aggravated assault. that aggravated assault can be
attempted false imprisonment actually serve as predicate felonies for the felony murder counts. in other words, this indictment does not allege any offense against any defendant other than murder and the predicate offense s former. there are a couple legal processes, i feel obligated to go through in every case. one of them is reasonable doubt. you heard several capable lawyers go through that, so i m not going to spend a lot of time there. not belaboring the point, however, i would like you to consider the courts a principles on reasonable doubt. a reasonable doubt means just what it says. it is the doubt of a fair-minded, impartial juror honestly seeking the truth. if you are fair-minded, impartial juror honestly seeking the truth, and you ve given us
murder is murder. each of the remaining four counts of the indictment, aggravated assault with a shotgun, aggravated assault with a motor vehicle or motor vehicles, false imprisonment and attempted false imprisonment actually serve as predicate felonies for the felony murder counts. in other words this indictment does not allege any offense against any defendant other than murder and the predicate offenses former. there are a couple of legal principles, i feel obligated to go over in every case. one of those is reasonable doubt. you have heard several capable lawyers go through that. i m not going to spend a lot of time there. without belaboring the point, i would consider the core principles at the heart of unreasonable doubt. unreasonable doubt means just what it says. it is the doubt of a fair minded impartial juror honestly seeking the truth. if you are a fair-minded