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  • Pike v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-02-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Judge Hines
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L. Grube, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Min-Soo Youn (Department of Law), Atlanta; Daniel Patrick Bibler, George Herbert Hartwig, III, Alicia Deck Gassett (Houston County District Attorney's Office), Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1541

    The evidence, including evidence of venue, was sufficient to support defendant's convictions for malice murder and related crimes and the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting into evidence autopsy photographs of the victim and evidence of an armed robbery the defendant and victim committed together two days before the victim's murder.