Court of Appeals of Georgia November 16, 2011, A11A0782 (Ward v. State)

Andrews, Judge,

dissenting.

1. The jury instruction given by the trial court on the inference arising from Wards’s recent possession of the stolen truck was *615consistent with Georgia law and did not create a mandatory presumption or shift the burden of persuasion to Ward in violation of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.