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Brooks v. State

Citations

  • 397 S.E.2d 622
  • 197 Ga. App. 194
  • 1990 Ga. App. LEXIS 1224

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that State v. Stonaker, 236 Ga. 1 (222 SE2d 354) (1976), has been cited for the very broad proposition “that simple battery is not, as a matter of law, a lesser crime included in the crime of child molestation” (punctuation omitted)
  • questioning whether simple battery can ever be a lesser included offense to child molestation and finding no error in refusal to charge where defendant denied inappropriately touching victim but also said he did not recall what had happened because he was intoxicated
  • questioning whether simple battery can ever be a lesser included offense to child molestation, and finding no error in refusal to charge where defendant denied inappropriately touching victim but also said he did not recall what had happened because he was intoxicated

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Judges: Carley, McMurray, Sognier

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