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Bullard v. State

Citations

  • 436 S.E.2d 647
  • 263 Ga. 682

How courts have described this case

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  • helping to hide the body after the murder does not alone constitute aiding and abetting the murder
  • reversing conviction for murder where defendant sat in car and did not protest while killer dismembered victim
  • gruesome nature of the videotape which results entirely from the acts of the appellant, not from any alteration or autopsy by the State, was properly admitted
  • defendant’s participation in concealing the victim’s body did not make her a party to the crime
  • neither direct nor sufficient circumstantial evidence that non-shooter was a party to the murder, but cooperated and concealed the death out of fear of the shooter
  • not error to admit gruesome photograph or videotape where its unpleasant nature arose from acts of defendant

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Judges: Sears-Collins

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