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Sharpe v. State

Citations

  • 531 S.E.2d 84
  • 272 Ga. 684
  • 2000 Fulton County D. Rep. 2047
  • 2000 Ga. LEXIS 478

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a retired county employee’s statement during voir dire that “he may have used ‘these boys’ [(referring to the three defendants
  • “Aiding and abetting encompasses the concept of helping in the commission of a crime.”
  • The pattern jury instruction concerning parties to a crime fully and adequately informs a jury of the correct legal principles.
  • final charge, as a whole, must be considered in assessing whether alleged error therein is reversible
  • failure to raise constitutional challenge to OCGA § 16-2-20 at trial waives issue on appeal
  • “[a] prior inconsistent statement is inadmissible in the absence of some showing that the witness who testified inconsistently at trial either had personal knowledge or had received information directly from one of the defendants themselves”

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Judges: Carley

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