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Williams v. State

Citations

  • 682 S.E.2d 586
  • 299 Ga. App. 345
  • 2009 Fulton County D. Rep. 2242
  • 2009 Ga. App. LEXIS 728

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  • “Whether a victim has been placed in reasonable apprehension of injury is a question of fact, which may be established by indirect or circumstantial evidence.”
  • “Whether a victim has been placed in reasonable apprehension of injury is a question of fact, which may be established by indirect or circumstantial evidence.”
  • presence of knife in defendant’s hand, coupled with victim’s actions after observing the knife, sufficed to show that the victim was placed in reasonable apprehension of an imminent violent injury
  • presence of knife in defendant's hand, coupled with victim's actions after observing the knife, sufficed to show that the victim was placed in reasonable apprehension of an imminent violent injury
  • “State need only establish that [defendant] placed the victim in reasonable apprehension of injury by a deadly weapon,” and “the mere ‘presence of a deadly weapon would normally place a victim in a reasonable apprehension of being injured violently.’ ”

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Judges: Barnes, Miller, Andrews

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