Filter This View

  • Woodson v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-08-13
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Willie Woodson, Oglethorpe, proceeded pro se. Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Bonnie K. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A04A1360

    The trial court had authority to expressly impose consecutive sentences for each of defendant's five felony convic

  • In the Interest of T.B.

    Publication Date: 2004-06-04
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin F. Windham, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and James T. Chafin III, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0310

    DFACS was not required to create a reunification plan for a putative father who did not seek out his child for nearly four years after her crack addicted mother left home wit

  • Hendrix v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-05-28
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven E. Phillips, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Alvera A. Wheeler, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0713

    The trial court did not err in charging on self-defense where the evidence showed that the aggravated assault victim straddled the defendant and struck him repea

  • Joyner v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-05-28
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James K. Kidd, Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Mallard, District Attorney, and Michael T. Muldrew, Assistant District Attorney, Statesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0207

    The defendant entered the victim's at 1:30 a.m. without permission, awoke the victim by touching her on her pubic area and took money and prescription drugs from her

  • McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP v. Keller

    Publication Date: 2004-05-07
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter C. Canfield, Thomas M. Clyde and Marcia K. Stadeker Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Neal H. Howard and William D. James Neal H. Howard & Assocs. PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0624

    The plai could not sue his adversary's law firm for negligence where the law firm owed no legal duty to the plai

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-05-07
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James W. Bradley, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Bonnie K. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: 04A0290

    The defendant shot the victim in the back of the head and the state used the same facts and evidence to support her aggravated assault and aggravated battery convic

  • Nash v. Ohio Nat'l Life Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2004-04-09
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hayes M. Dever and Patricia J. Duffy Friedman, Dever & Merlin LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Allen S. Willingham Love & Willingham, and Michael T. Thornton, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A1822; A03A1823

    The plaintiff was on notice in 1992 that the life insurance policy he purchased was a variable life insurance policy since his accountant informed him at that time that the policy was based on a pro

  • Georgia Dep't of Human Resources v. Odom

    Publication Date: 2004-04-09
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Bryan K. Webb, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Kendal L. Kerew, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jerry W. Brimberry Brimberry, Kaplan & Brimberry PC, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A2164

    Some evidence supported the state personnel board's termination of the plaintiff's employment as a health service technician for a psychiatric fac

  • Griner v. Georgia Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2004-04-02
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas L. Mutert, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Edward F. Preston Coleman, Talley, Newbern, Kurrie, Preston & Holland LLP, John H. Smith Jr. Young, Thagard, Hoffman & Smith, Valdosta, and John T. Croley Jr., Fitzgerald, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A1673

    The defendants could not foresee that a trained firefighter would hand an unlicensed rescue worker a knife and tell him to "blow" the front tires of a truck that was wedged under another truck foll

  • In the Interest of G. B.

    Publication Date: 2003-10-24
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tamara Jacobs, Barnesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Nina J. Edidin, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and W. Ashley Hawkins, Forsyth, for appellee. Other Party Representation: Karen K. Martin Martin & Martin, Barnesville.
    Case Number: A03A1146

    The mother's intent to allow her child to continue visiting the grandmother's violent home supported the termination of the mother's parental r