George W. Pitts, Jr. v. Arthur L. Smith, III

Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia ATLANTA,____________________ April 24, 2018 The Court of Appeals hereby passes the following order: A18A1435. GEORGE W. PITTS, JR. v. ARTHUR L. SMITH, III. In 2004, a jury found George W. Pitts, Jr., guilty of rape, aggravated battery, kidnapping with bodily injury, aggravated child molestation, and aggravated assault. We vacated Pitts’s conviction for aggravated child molestation, but otherwise affirmed his judgment of conviction on direct appeal. See Pitts v. State,

287 Ga. App. 540

( 652 SE2d 181) (2007).1 In 2017, Pitts, who remains incarcerated,…