Beneke v. Parker

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “crime,” as used in OCGA § 9-3-99, applies to misdemeanors, including traffic offenses, as well as felonies
• explaining that courts should “avoid a construction that makes some 8 language mere surplusage”
• explaining that courts should \avoid a construction that makes some language mere surplusage\
• “The fundamental rules of statutory construction require us to construe a statute according to its terms [and] to give words their plain and ordinary meaning[.]” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “The fundamental rules of statutory construction require us to construe a statute according to its terms [and] to give words their plain and ordinary meaning[.]” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).