Barlow v. State

Hines, Justice.

Defendant Timothy Bryan Barlow appeals a January 5, 2004 order of the Superior Court of Cobb County entered pursuant to the State’s request for clarification of the superior court’s prior order granting Barlow a new trial following his convictions for murder, rape, and aggravated sodomy. The issue is whether the January 5, 2004 order was a clarification of the court’s earlier grant of Barlow’s motion for new trial or was, instead, an untimely reconsideration and modification of that previous ruling. For the reasons which follow, we conclude that the order was authorized as a…