Case Digests

Houston v. State

Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Catherine M. Williams Williams & Spears PC, Thomasville, for appellant.
for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Valdosta, James E. Hardy, Chief Assistant District Attorney, and Mark E. Mitchell, Assistant District Attorney, Thomasville, for appellee.
Case Number: A99A2032

The defendant was not entitled to separate trials on charges that he robbed four victims from the same county during the same month by engaging them in conversation and then demanding

Fortson v. State

Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John W. Donnelly, Athens, for appellant.
for defendant: Harry N. Gordon, District Attorney, and Gerald W. Brown, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, for appellee.
Case Number: A00A0112

The state properly impeached the defendant's testimony that his co-defendant coerced him into forging one of the victim's checks on the day of the robbery with evidence that the defendant forged ano

In the Interest of C.K.

Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Y. Brown Brown & Gill LLC, Decatur, for appellant.
for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Dennis R. Dunn, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and James T. Chafin III, McDonough, for appellee. Other party representation: Sharon J.S. Whitwell, Locust Grove.
Case Number: A00A0072

Evidence that the mother suffers from a severe mental illness and did not cooperate with DFACS in scheduling psychiatric appointments and attending counseling sessions supported the termination of h

Glynn-Brunswick Mem'l Hosp. Auth. v. Gibbons

Publication Date: 2000-03-08
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
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Case Number: A99A1868, A99A1869, A99A1870

Knight v. State

Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sam B. Sibley Jr., Augusta, for appellant.
for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
Case Number: A00A0038

Police officers could stop defendant based on a reliable informant's tip regarding a drug transaction, which accurately described defendant and his car, his location and the time he would be

State v. Williams

Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Erman J. Tanjuatco, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellant.
for defendant: Suellen Fleming, Jonesboro, for appellee.
Case Number: A99A2133

The fact that defendant paid cash for a one-way ticket from Miami to Atlanta, gave inconsistent answers and was nervous when approached by drug enforcement agents and had a roll of plastic wrap in h

Hawkins v. State

Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock, Decatur, for appellant.
for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, and Maria Murcier-Ashley, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
Case Number: A00A0276

Defendant was not entitled to a jury charge on theft by receiving stolen property since that crime is not a lesser included offense of armed robbery and the evidence did not show that he merely rece

Booker v. State

Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Monique D. Moyse, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: A99A2464

After its witness recanted his pretrial statement inculpating defendant, the state improperly attempted to bolster his pretrial credibility by showing that he truthfully inculpated other defendants

Garland v. State

Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
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: A99A1653

Defendant who knowingly and voluntarily waived his right to counsel and represented hi on the first day of trial could not claim that he ineffectively represented hi

DeLoach v. Rovema Corp.

Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cletus W. Bergen II, Savannah, for appellant.
for defendant: . Robert S. Glenn Jr., Hunter, Maclean, Exley & Dunn PC, Savannah, for appellees.
Case Number: A99A2431

Since defendant only sold and did not manufacture the machine that injured plaintiff, it had no duty to warn of the machine's dangers that arose or were discovered after the time of the