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Parker v. State

Citations

  • 507 S.E.2d 744
  • 270 Ga. 256
  • 98 Fulton County D. Rep. 3970
  • 1998 Ga. LEXIS 1158

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  • holding that to prove the use of a deadly or offensive weapon that put the victim in a reasonable apprehension of immediately receiving a violent injury, the State must prove the intent .to commit the act of using a deadly or offensive weapon, not an intent to make the victim apprehensive
  • malice murder is commit- ted when the evidence establishes “an express or, in the alternative, an implied intent to commit an unlawful homicide”
  • “[R]eckless disregard for human life may be the equivalent of a specific intent to kill.”
  • malice murder is commit- ted when the evidence establishes “an express or, in the alternative, an implied intent to commit an unlawful homicide”

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Judges: Benham, Hines, Fletcher, Sears, Hunstein

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