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Woody v. State

Citations

  • 494 S.E.2d 685
  • 229 Ga. App. 823
  • 97 Fulton County D. Rep. 4050
  • 1997 Ga. App. LEXIS 1346

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  • holding that we do not evaluate unsupported arguments on a defendant’s behalf because “it replaces the defendant’s or his attorney’s scrutiny of the trial record with an appellate court’s cursory review of the record for clear and grave injustice”
  • reversal warranted where there is no record of a factual basis for a plea and no transcript of the plea hearing
  • stamped words above judge’s signature provide no basis for an appellate court to ascertain whether the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to allow the withdrawal of guilty plea where there is no transcript of hearings
  • stamped words above judge's signature provide no basis for an appellate court to ascertain whether the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to allow the withdrawal of guilty plea where there is no transcript of hearings

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Judges: Birdsong, Ruffin, Eldridge

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