• Carter v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-05-23
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher P. Twyman Hine & Niedrach PC, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bryant G. Speed II, District Attorney, and Charles S. Cox, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A0766

    Defendant agreed to sell drugs to an informant, set the price, met the informant at the agreed location, sent a third party to retrieve the drugs and waited with the informant for the third party's r

  • Razor v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-01-31
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L. Grube, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, Jason E. Ashford and Emily E. Smith, Assistant District Attorneys, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1758

    The arresting officer smelled alcohol on defendant's breath during a valid traffic stop, defendant admitted drinking two beers and he failed all but one field sobriety

  • Coker v. Deep S. Surplus of Ga. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Fred Orr II and James G. Edwards II Orr & Edwards, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Russell B. Davis, Sean L. Hynes Downey & Cleveland, Marietta, Theodore Salter Jr. Salter & Richards, and Michael J. Goldman Hawkins & Parnell, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1359

    A safety inspection company was not immune from suit under the Workers' Compensation Act since it was not the employer's insurance carrier and had no contract or agreement with the plaintiff's empl

  • Rose v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-15
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elaine T. McGruder Fulton County Conflict Defender's Office, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Erman J. Tanjuatco, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A2254

    The defendant was not entitled to a sua sponte jury instruction on similar transaction evidence since he intentionally presented evidence of his prior drug conviction to argue that he would never ag

  • Infinite Energy Inc. v. Georgia Pub. Serv. Comm'n

    Publication Date: 2002-10-25
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen I. Hirsch, Henry R. Chalmers, Aaron M. Danzig Arnall, Golden & Gregory, Atlanta, and Douglas F. John, Washington D.C., for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Robert S. Bomar, Deputy Attorney General, Daniel S. Walsh, Assistant Attorney General, Robert B. Remar and Kimberly L. Myers Rogers & Hardin LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A02A1177

    The Public Service Commission's April 2000 order adopting Atlanta Gas Light's proposed methodology for truing-up volume differentials among gas marketers did not arbitrarily or capriciously reverse

  • Thompson v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-08-30
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. Elizabeth Lane, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, Katherine K. Lumsden and Amy E. Smith, Assistant District Attorneys, Perry, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1456

    The evidence, including defendant's own admissions that his house and shop where the crimes occurred are located in Houston County, established venue beyond a reasonable

  • Brock v. Allen d/b/a Complete Pest Control

    Publication Date: 2002-07-26
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donna S. Golden, Jefferson, and Christopher L. Casey J. Hue Henry PC, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Charles E. Rogers Webb, Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, Joseph R. Cruser, Jennifer M. McBath Cruser & Mitchell LLP, Philip W. Savrin and Brian K. Schumacher Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A02A0114

    A plaintiff can maintain a professional negligence claim against an extermi

  • Forest Commodity Corp. v. Lone Star Indus. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-05-03
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roy E. Paul, Walter C. Hartridge and David M. Conner Bouhan, Williams & Levy, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert S. Glenn Jr. and Colin A. McRae Hunter, MacLean, Exley & Dunn PC, Savannah, for appellees.

    Case Number: A02A0141

    No jury question remained regarding whether plaintiff was entitled to enforce term of the contract requiring defendant to ship a minimum amount of aggregate stone through plaintiff's terminal space

  • Green v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-04-19
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney E. Davis, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, and Amy E. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Perry, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A2458

    The trial court erred by limiting defendant's cross-examination of his co-defendants regarding the maximum sentence for armed robbery where the co-defendants negotiated reduced sentences in exchange

  • Taylor v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-08
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank C. Winn Winn, Price & Winn, Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: James D. McDade, District Attorney, and William H. McClain, Assistant District Attorney, Douglasville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A1923

    The officers had probable cause to suspect that marijuana would be found in defendant's apartment based on the smell of marijuana coming from the apartment, the smell of marijuana on the clothes of