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  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-04-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard Phillips and Joseph C. Kitchings Phillips & Kitchings, Ludowici, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Durden Jr., District Attorney, and Lewis M. Groover Jr., Chief Assistant District Attorney, Hinesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2020

    The defendant was entitled to a directed verdict on a charge that he possessed cocaine with the intent to distribute, since the state failed to present evidence showing a connection between the defe

  • Douglas v. Bigley

    Publication Date: 2006-03-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin I. Fink and Steven A. Wagner Freed & Berman PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Joseph H. Fowler Hartley, Rowe & Fowler PC, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1970

    The defendants were entitled to a j.n.o.v. on the plaintiff's claim for rescission of her investment con because the alleged illegalities of the scheme were incidental to the purpose of the co

  • Holloway v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. Adams Jr., Thomaston, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott L. Ballard, District Attorney, Cindy L. Spindler, Assistant District Attorney, Fayetteville, James E. Hardin, Assistant District Attorney, Griffin, and Robert H. English, Assistant District Attorney, Thomaston, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2112

    The defendant did not show that he could have produced an alibi if the state had narrowed the dates in his indictment for aggravated child molestation, child molestation and i

  • The Hammer Corp. v. Wade

    Publication Date: 2006-03-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth L. Millwood Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: W. Ray Persons and Stephen P. Cummings II King & Spalding, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1854

    The terms of the parties' promissory note arising out of the sale of a portion of plaintiff's ephedrine distribution market to defendants limited the plaintiff's remedy for breach of contract to see

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Renate D. Moody, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard G. Milam, District Attorney, Jackson, and Mark S. Daniel, Assistant District Attorney, Forsyth, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2132

    The jury was entitled to disbelieve that defendant's testimony that he gently shook the 14-month-old victim, who died of Shaken Baby Syn

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  • Department of Human Resources v. Crews

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Loretta L. Pinkston and Richard V. Merritt, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert W. Guy Jr. James E. Stein PC, St. Marys, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2116

    Under ordinary circumstances, an employee of a community service board is not an agent of the state Department of Human Reso

  • Green v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd J. Matthews, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jewel C. Scott, District Attorney, and Richard C. Brown, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2052

    The record did not show that trial court imposed a harsher sentence simply because the defendant declined to plead guilty and the sentences the trial court imposed on the defendant's convictions fo

  • Nichols v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marcus C. Chamblee, Cambridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Penny A. Penn, District Attorney, Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1950

    Evidence showed that the infant's extensive injuries and brain damage were inconsistent with the defendant's contention that he slipped in the shower and the victim hit her face on the ba

  • Investment Properties Co. Inc. v. Watson

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tracy C. Wooden and Gregory E. Glass Wooden, Fulton & Scarborough, Chattanooga, Tenn., for appellant.
    for defendant: . David J. Dunn Jr. and Jennifer E. Hildebrand, LaFayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2250

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing the plaintiff to amend his complaint to clarify which contract he signed prior to entry of the pretrial order, even if the amendment served t

  • In the Interest of J. H.

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lisa Lott, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Kathryn A. Pope DFACS, Athens, for appellee. Other party representation: Nadine D. Bailey, Athens.
    Case Number: A05A1592

    The mother's failure to address her mental help problems or avail herself to assistance offered by DFACS and her co-workers to find housing supported the termination of her parental r