• Floyd v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J Farnham Farnham & Assocs., Social Circle, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, and Bryan H. Frost, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1153

    The trial court properly denied the defendant's Batson claim after the state gave race-neutral reasons for striking three African-American potential j

  • Hammonds v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer E. Hildebrand, Lafayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, Lafayette, and Michael J. Moeller, Assistant District Attorney, Summerville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1266

    The trial court did not err in charging the entire code section for simple battery where it also charged on defendant's indictment and the indictment went out with the

  • In the Interest of J. D. T.

    Publication Date: 2003-09-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert E. Perrine Jr., Leesburg, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth B. Hodges III, District Attorney, and Gregory W. Edwards, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Albany, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A0894

    There was no fatal variance between an allegation in the juvenile's indictment that he unlawfully took an International semi-tractor and the witness's testimony that the stolen semi-tractor was a

  • The Rental Equip. Group Inc. v. MACI LLC

    Publication Date: 2003-09-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard A. Childs, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Charles A. Gower, Columbus, and John P. Cannon, Albany, for appellees.

    Case Number: A03A1293

    The jury's award of $3.678 million in damages for promissory estoppel and/or breach of contract was within the range of damages shown by the evidence, including plaintiffs' detrimental reliance on d

  • International Biochemical Indus. Inc. v. Jamestown Management Corp.

    Publication Date: 2003-09-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lynn C. Stewart and Scott D. McAlpine Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Susan E. Edlein Holland & Knight, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A03A1275

    Res judicata did not bar the lessor from bringing claims for future or accelerated rent after successfully pursuing claims for past due rent in a dispossessory proceeding since the parties' lease ex

  • Grier v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew K. Hube Hube & Tucker PC, Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rene J. Martin III, Richard A. Mallard, District Attorneys, and Michael T. Muldrew, Assistant District Attorney, Statesbor0, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A0996

    Defendant was not entitled to a directed verdict on an obstruction count involving a jail dispatcher who had not completed his mandatory training at the time of defendant's arrest, since the record

  • Swann v. Shorter

    Publication Date: 2003-09-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth W. Carpenter Zachary & Seagraves PA, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: . William F. C. Skinner Jr., Decatur, for appellees.

    Case Number: A03A2087

    The plaintiffs failed to show that the decedent entered into a binding contract to make a will devising certain real property to

  • Bell v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert R. McNeill, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1329

    The trial court did not err in allowing a store security agent to testify regarding his personal knowledge of the price of each stolen

  • Reeves v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julian M. Treadaway, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Barry E. Morgan, Solicitor General, Jessica K. Moss, Chief Assistant Solicitor General, and Sandra G. Dawson, Assistant Solicitor, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1344

    Defendant fondled a wheelchair-bound resident at a special care fac

  • Harwood v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee Sexton and Joseph S. Key Sexton & Morris PC, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Charles A. Spahos, Solicitor General, and Gilbert A. Crosby Henry County Solicitor General's Office, McDonough, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1284; A03A1285

    Any issue about whether a roadblock complied with departmental policy requiring the use of orange cones and reflective hats was irrelevant to the issue of whether the roadblock was constitut