State v. Cooperman

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing where trial court entered “judgments of acquittal” for want of prosecution, which Court of Appeals correctly recognized was trial court “in effect dismissing the two accusations with prejudice”
• state entitled to appeal from a void or illegal order terminating the state’s right to prosecute
• “The Civil Practice Act ([OCGA § 9-11-41 (b)]) provides for dismissal with prejudice of [c]ivil cases, but the court knows of no statutory or case authority which permits dismissals in [c]riminal cases.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).