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Hamm v. State

Citations

  • 294 Ga. 791
  • 756 S.E.2d 507
  • 2014 Fulton County D. Rep. 529
  • 2014 WL 998694
  • 2014 Ga. LEXIS 222

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  • holding that even if there are multiple corroborating witnesses and other corroborating evidence, it is error for a trial court to fail to give a requested accomplice-corroboration instruction, although the failure to instruct was harmless error
  • concluding that the failure to charge on accomplice corroboration was harmless because the State introduced 14 independent evidence connecting him to the shooting and introduced the appellant’s admission to another person that he killed someone
  • concluding that the failure to charge on accomplice corroboration was harmless because the State introduced independent evidence connecting him to the shooting and introduced the appellant’s admission to another person that he 14 killed someone
  • addressing the trial court’s erroneous refusal to give an instruction regarding the need for corroboration of an accomplice’s testimony
  • addressing the trial court’s erroneous refusal to give an instruction regarding the need for corroboration of an accomplice’s testimony
  • trial court’s refusal to give requested accomplice charge was harmless error where defendant admitted that he killed someone and other independent evidence connected him to the shooting

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Judges: Hunstein

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