• Woodson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen T. Smith, Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Bonnie K. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A2110

    Before sentencing defendant as a recidivist, the trial court should have determined whether his five prior out-of-state felony convictions were for conduct that would have constituted felonies in Ge

  • Jordan v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerome C. McKee, Public Defender, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Benjamin M. First, Special Assistant District Attorney, and Barbara B. Conroy, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A2275

    Evidence that office manager issued over $50,000 in unauthorized checks from her employer's account made out to herself, her cousin and her fianc supported her convictions on 31 counts of fo

  • Brewer v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael R. McCarthy, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, and Stephen E. Spencer, Assistant District Attorney, Dalton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A98A1672

    The Court of Appeals adopted the Supreme Court's judgment that defendant's aggravated sodomy conviction should be vacated since the state presented no evidence that he used force to commit sodomy ag

  • Hamilton v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Tracy, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, and Victoria Spear-Darrisaw, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0605

    Informant's testimony that he discovered defendant was selling cocaine out of his home was admissible to show the circumstances leading to defendant's a

  • Accolades Apartments LP v. Fulton County

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
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    Case Number: A00A0143, A00A0144

    Creditors of joint venture's individual members could place liens against joint venture's property, since deed conveying property to joint venture did not state that a partnership interest ex

  • Brandon v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter D. Johnson, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A1824

    The trial court should not have charged that the jury did not have to believe incredible, impossible or inherently improbable testimony, since defendant's claimed alibi was not impossible as running

  • Bearden v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney L. Mathis, Calhoun, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, Cartersville, and Rebecca B. Paris, Assistant District Attorney, Calhoun, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0189, A00A0190

    The trial court properly denied a continuance to defendant who waited until the Saturday before trial to try to hire an att

  • Leonard v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelley A. Dial, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, and Mickey R. Thacker, Assistant District Attorney, Cartersville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0057

    Testimony from undercover officers who observed confidential informant purchase co from defendant's accomplice corroborated informant's testimony that defendant supplied that co

  • O'Hara v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Mason, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, and Alonza Whitaker, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A1791

    Trial judge's friendly conversation with a police officer during his examination by the state was not a comment on that officer's credib

  • In the Interest of S.B.

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vicki E. Carter, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tony D. Coy, Athens, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso and Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Russell C. Gabriel University of Georgia Legal Aid Clinic, Athens, and John C. Shelton, Atlanta.

    Case Number: A00A0174

    Evidence that mother did not prevent her one-month-old daughter from being sexually molested and shaken to death supported the finding that her 16-month-old child was dep