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Bostic v. State

Citations

  • 361 S.E.2d 872
  • 184 Ga. App. 509
  • 1987 Ga. App. LEXIS 2790

How courts have described this case

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  • analyzing allegedly erroneous preliminary explanation to jury in the context of a jury charge
  • court cannot accept a non-negotiated plea of guilty to an offense other than the offense charged
  • court cannot accept a non-negotiated plea of guilty to an offense other than the offense charged
  • court cannot accept a nonnegoti-ated plea of guilty to an offense other than the offense charged
  • no reversible error where trial court’s instruction, viewed as a whole, “was a correct statement of the function of the grand jury, was not misleading, and did not shift the burden of proof”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Sognier, McMurray, Beasley

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