Tommy Tyrone Griffin was convicted of felony murder and conspiracy to traffic in cocaine after a drug transaction at a Gwinnett County apartment ended in a shootout that killed one participant. Griffin arrived with two men and $4,000; police later found 248.56 grams of cocaine and drug-distribution equipment in the apartment. Griffin told police he went there to buy marijuana, but the State argued that the circumstances proved a conspiracy to possess trafficking-level cocaine. The Georgia Supreme Court reversed. It held that the evidence showed, at most, a possible buyer-seller agreement between Griffin and the people operating the apartment, and Georgia law does not treat that agreement alone as a conspiracy. The State also failed to prove the conspiracy alleged in the indictment because it presented no evidence that Griffin or his companions had an agreement with the stash-house operators. Because felony murder rested on that conspiracy, both convictions had to be reversed. The Court rejected Griffin’s jury-instruction challenge as moot. Justice Melton, joined by Presiding Justice Hines and Justice Benham, dissented, reasoning that the jury could infer a broader conspiracy from Griffin’s conduct, the drugs, and the circumstances of the transaction.