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Davenport v. State

Citations

  • 361 S.E.2d 219
  • 184 Ga. App. 214
  • 1987 Ga. App. LEXIS 2764

How courts have described this case

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

  • woman’s language towards K-Mart security guard amounted to fighting words as they “invoked violence against herself and provoked passions in bystanders”
  • “[I]t ... is clear that by [the defendant’s] language and actions to [the guard] she invoked violence against herself and provoked passions in bystanders.”
  • decided when OCGA § 16-11-39 (a) (1) was numbered 16-11-39 (1)
  • conviction for using opprobrious language

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Judges: Birdsong, Deen, Pope

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