Filter This View

  • Young v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Stewart, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and James L. Wright III, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2474, A99A2475

    Officer's testimony that cocaine discovered under seat of defendants' car was next to their gun and lack of evidence that anyone else had us car permitt inference that defendants posses

  • Mitchell v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven L. Morgan Steven L. Morgan PC, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, and Charles K. Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2060

    Even though the trial court refrained from qualifying the state's witness as a finger print expert, the detective's years of experience in identifying fingerprints qualified him to give an expert op

  • ComSouth Teleservs. Inc. v. Liggett

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas W. Joyce Jones, Cork & Miller, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ben B. Mills Jr. Mills & Chasteen PC, Fitzgerald, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A1711

    There was no evidence that the d nt intentionally back-dated the plaintiff's separation notice to prevent her from collecting medical benefits for hospital care she received the day before the

  • Hemphill v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert H. Alexander III, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Debra H. Bernes, John C. Richter, and Maria B. Golick, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0613

    The jury could find that the defendant was a party to the armed robbery since he admitted that he drove his co-defendants to the crime scene, knew they had guns, watched them rob the restaurant and

  • Merneigh v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jill L. Anderson, Public Defender, Douglasville, and Lee. W. Fitzpatrick, Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: James D. McDade, District Attorney, and James E. Barker, Assistant District Attorney, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0145

    The trial court properly allowed a prospective juror who knew one of the state's witnesses to remain on the jury panel since she said that her relationship with that witness would not necessarily ca

  • Beard v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Billy M. Grantham, Donalsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, and Anthony E. Paulsen III, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0164

    The GBI agent's testimony that the defendant sold cocaine to the witnesses at his apartment during an undercover operation supported the defendant's convi

  • GFA Bus. Solutions Inc. v. Greenway Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert G. Brazier, Irwin W. Stolz Jr., Seaton D. Purdom Gambrell & Stolz, Atlanta, and Christopher R. Stovall Andersen, Davidson & Tate, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael W. McElroy Harman, Owen, Saunders & Sweeney PC, Michael T. Thornton, Atlanta, and Pamela M. Richards-Greenway, Warner Robins, for appellee. Other party representation: Charles M. Goetz Jr. Goetz, Tibbs & Zahler and Philippa V. Tibbs Gleaton, Persons, Egan & Jones, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A99A2373

    An insurance company could be liable for breach of a contract to procure insurance where its authorized agent accepted insurance premiums from the plaintiff and then pocketed the money instead of pa

  • In the Interest of C.P.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wanda G. Johnson, Forsyth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Laura W. Hyman, Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and W. Ashley Hawkins, Forsyth, for appellee. Other party representation: C. Robert Melton Haygood, Lynch, Harris & Melton, Forsyth, and Edith J. Gilbert, Savannah.
    Case Number: A99A2144

    Evidence that the father lied about his criminal record in a prior termination hearing, was presently incarcerated and faced revocation of his felony probation supported the juvenile court's finding

  • Bolden v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William C. Head, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph J. Drolet, Solicitor General, and June D. Green, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A98A1828

    The Court of Appeals adopted the Supreme Court's judgment reversing the defendant's DUI conviction because the state improperly commented on the credibility of its only wi

  • Rice v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bobby L. Cook, L. Branch Connelly and Rex B. Abernathy Cook & Connelly, Summerville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tambra P. Colston, District Attorney, and Leigh E. Patterson, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0565

    Even though a child witness in defendant's later recanted his testimony in a subsequent defense counsel was not ineffective for failing to cross-examine that witness at defendant's