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Smith v. State

Citations

  • 547 S.E.2d 598
  • 249 Ga. App. 39
  • 2001 Fulton County D. Rep. 1312
  • 2001 Ga. App. LEXIS 394

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  • where the only similarity between the unrelated offenses of the rape of an adult woman and the child molestation was that both were of a sexual nature, court should sever the trial
  • “[defendant’s] rape of an adult woman would not show that he had a lustful disposition toward children, and his molestation of a child would not show that he had a bent of mind to rape an adult”

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Judges: Phipps, Johnson, Smith

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