Sweet v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Birdsong, Judge.
The appellant Marion Leon Sweet was convicted of arson. After an evening of extremely loud and boisterous and ungovernable behav ior, when he took his pregnant girl friend to the hospital after an altercation between them, he was arrested; and it was found by the jury that, as charged, he set fire to his jail cell in the night. His defense was that his cellmate set the fire. On appeal he enumerates 11 errors. Held:
1. We find no harmful error in the trial court’s denial of Sweet’s motion for preliminary hearing. The offense was committed on September 28, 1987. Sweet did not…
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