• Horton v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-09-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hugh D. Harper, Eatonton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frederic D. Bright, District Attorney, and Wilson B. Mitcham Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Greensboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A1554

    The use of darker-skinned men in the photographic line-up did not create the kind of suggestiveness that would inexorably lead the viewer to conclude that the defendant, the lightest skinned man in

  • Freeman v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-09-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marc D. Cella and Gary O. Walker, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James R. Osborne, District Attorney, and Elizabeth L. Larson, Assistant District Attorney, Dallas, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A1230

    The trial court did not violate U.S.C.R. 31.3 by failing to hold a hearing before admitting evidence of a subsequent difficulty between the defendant and the child molestation v

  • Harris v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-09-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert H. Baer, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frederic D. Bright, District Attorney, Greensboro, and Stephen A. Bradley, Assistant District Attorney, Milledgeville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A0997

    The defendant knowingly and intelligently waived his right to a trial by

  • Henry County Water and Sewage Auth. v. Adelson

    Publication Date: 2004-09-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. White Smith, Welch & Brittain, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard N. Hubert Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A1576

    Evidence of flooding and siltation that would naturally and proximately occur as a result of the taking was admissible to prove compensable consequential damages to the remainder of the condemnee's

  • Colvin v. City of Thomasville, Ga.

    Publication Date: 2004-09-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chevene B. King Jr., Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: William C. Sanders Alexander & Vann LLP, Thomasville, for appellees.

    Case Number: A04A1346

    Plaintiff's written notice of his injury claim against the city did not substantially comply with statutory anti-litem notice require

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-08-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin H. Eaves, Waycross, for Smith. James B. McGee III McGee and McGee, for Bryant. Richard E Currie, District Attorney, and Amy A. Ferguson Waycross District Attorney's Office, Waycross, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A04A1248; A04A1249

    The first defendant was one of two men who entered a grocery store with a gunman, approached the counter together and remained behind the gunman when he pointed his weapon at the victim's head and d

  • The Neiman-Marcus Grp. Inc. v. Dufour

    Publication Date: 2004-06-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Malcolm Smith and Kevin A. Doyle Lokey and Smith, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Hollis C. Cobb Schenck & Assocs., Robert B. Lipman Robert B. Lipman & Assocs. PC, and Clyde E. Rickard III, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A0179

    A department store owner relinquished control of its property to an independent contractor, so the store was not liable for the contractor's inj

  • Robertson v. CRI Inc.

    Publication Date: 2004-06-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Ford Anderson Daily LP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leon S. Jones Jones & Walden LLC, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Adam P. Princenthal Law Office of Adam P. Princenthal LLC, Bryan G. Harrison Morris, Manning & Martin, and Jeffrey B. Grim, Atlanta.

    Case Number: A04A0571

    The non-resident defendant engaged in purposeful activity in Georgia when he signed a note agreement and guaranty to induce a Georgia-based bank to fund the oper of a Georgia-based corpor

  • Madison v. Barnett

    Publication Date: 2004-06-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leon Larke, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Mildred K. Jackson Fleming, Jackson, Ingram & Floyd PC, Augusta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A04A0196

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying the paternal grandparents' adoption petition because it was in the child's best interest to have both sets of grandparents working together to

  • Blevins v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2004-06-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Pamela M. Spencer, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Arthur H. Clarke Arthur H. Clarke Jr. PC, Warner Robins, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A0781

    The trial court cannot amend the substance of a verdict once the verdict is received and the jury is disp