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Hurston v. State

Citations

  • 414 S.E.2d 303
  • 202 Ga. App. 311
  • 1991 Ga. App. LEXIS 1753

How courts have described this case

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

  • appellant exerted control over a vehicle for the purpose of OCGA § 16-8-7 when he was left alone in the car with the vehicle running when the driver briefly went into a convenience store
  • co-defendant left appellant alone in the car with the motor running
  • evidence was sufficient to find defendant had the right to exercise control over the stolen vehicle, in that he was “left... alone in the car with the vehicle running when [the driver] went into the convenience store”
  • evidence was sufficient to find defendant had the right to exercise control over the stolen vehicle, in that he was \left . . . alone in the car with the vehicle running when [the driver] went into the convenience store\
  • “receiving” stolen property means acquiring possession or control

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Andrews, Arnold, Beasley, Birdsong, Carley, Cooper, Pope, Shulman, Sognier

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