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  • Dickerson v. Dickerson

    Publication Date: 2001-03-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth L. Shigley, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard W. Hendrix Finch, McCranie, Brown & Thrash, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1992

    A prior judicial determination that petitioner was not decedent's common-law wife, precluded her from raising their alleged common-law marriage in her petition to set aside the appointment of decede

  • Lewis v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel C. Chapman III Chapman & Pope, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Sandra A. Graves, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1866

    Defendant was not entitled to a charge on misdemeanor theft by shoplifting because the evidence showed that she committed either felony shoplifting or no of

  • Edwards v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher S. Warren, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth B. Hodges III, District Attorney, and Gregory W. Edwards, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0211

    The trial court's slip of the tongue in charging the jury on voluntary manslaughter did not render its charge as a whole im

  • In re Sellers

    Publication Date: 2001-03-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Agrippa K. Long III, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark N. Stephen The Law Complex, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1894

    The probate court had authority to approve the creation of a trust for the benefit of an incapacitated woman after the court authorized her guardian to settle her personal injury

  • Spoon v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James B. Sullivan, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Blair K. Cleveland and Richard A. Epps Jr. Martin, Snow, Grant & Napier, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0174

    Because the plaintiff failed to list his tort claim on his schedule of assets in his Chapter 13 bankruptcy petition, he was precluded from pursuing that claim against the defe

  • Smith v. Direct Media Co.

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Lance Smith III, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph E. East, Waycross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2160

    Because the defendant never gave the plaintiff any indication that he did not consider himself liable for the parties' advertising contract, the defendant was equitably estopped from relying on his

  • Rivera v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee Sexton Lee Sexton & Associates PC, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Staci L. Guest, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2086

    A drug dog's detection of cocaine in defendant's luggage and defendant's questionable behavior supported the issuance of a warrant to search defendant'

  • Woody v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael K. McKinney and Richard A. Jones Ray & McKinney, Ellijay, for appellant.
    for defendant: roger Queen, District Attorney, and William B. Britt, Assistant District Attorney, Ellijay, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0104

    The Court of Appeals dismissed the defendant's discretionary appeal as improvidently gr

  • Bridges v. Mann

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Graylin C. Ward, Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Sherrell Jay, Sherrell, Smith & Bradley PC, Fitzgerald, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A1858

    The plaintiff's acceptance of a check for less than the amount in dispute constituted an accord and satisfaction of his

  • Turner v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wayne L. Burnaine, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2189

    The trial court properly refused to reveal the confidential informant's identity because the defendant was not charged with selling cocaine to the informant and the informant was not present during