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Davis v. State

Citations

  • 607 S.E.2d 924
  • 270 Ga. App. 777
  • 2004 Ga. App. LEXIS 1601

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  • there is a rebuttable presumption that the driver or owner of an automobile exercised possession and control of contraband found in the automobile
  • “[T]he equal access rule, conceptually and historically, has no application where, as here, all persons allegedly having equal access to the contraband are alleged to have been in joint constructive possession of that contraband.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
  • evidence that the defendant truck owner and others in the truck had equal access to contraband in the truck showed that all involved “were parties to the crime and thus guilty of joint constructive possession” of the contraband
  • regarding review for sufficiency of the evidence

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Judges: Blackburn, Barnes, Mikell

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