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Wallace v. State

Citations

  • 333 S.E.2d 874
  • 175 Ga. App. 685
  • 1985 Ga. App. LEXIS 2138

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the subsections of OCGA § 17-10-7 “must be read together”
  • reversing sentence when the Georgia offenses most closely related to the federal offense of receiving, possessing, and concealing explosives, knowing they had been stolen, contained additional elements that were not required by the federal statute
  • federal conviction for receiving, possessing, and concealing explosives could not be considered for recidivist punishment where analogous state crimes required additional proof of intent or of value in order to qualify as a felony

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Judges: Banke, Deen, McMurray, Birdsong, Carley, Sognier, Pope, Benham, Beasley

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