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McKee v. State

Citations

  • 621 S.E.2d 611
  • 275 Ga. App. 646

How courts have described this case

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

  • “To violate the statute, the comments must focus on a disputed issue of material fact.”
  • “[w]ithout evidence of a legislative intent to allow multiple punishments for the same course of conduct . . . acts that constitute a [single] criminal course of conduct are not punishable separately”
  • trial court’s comment on undisputed fact was not a violation of the statute
  • “We neither weigh the evidence nor judge the credibility of witnesses, but determine only whether the evidence was sufficient for a rational trier of fact to find the defendant guilty of the charged offense beyond a reasonable doubt.”
  • criminal conduct constituted a single course of conduct spanning several days, not a separate offense of child cruelty for each day, where unit of prosecution was causing a child excessive physical or mental pain and statute did not define crime temporally
  • criminal conduct constituted a single course of conduct spanning several days, not a separate offense of cruelty to children for each day, where unit of prosecution was causing a child excessive physical or mental pain and statute did not define crime temporally

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Judges: Miller, Blackburn, Bernes

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