Legal Opinion

Okeke v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided March 7, 2005No. A05A0583PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Miller, Judge.

Appearing pro se, Sylvanus Okeke appeals from his conviction for family violence battery. In his notice of appeal, however, Okeke did not request that a trial transcript be included as part of the appellate record. The absence of the trial transcript makes it impossible for this Court to review Okeke’s enumerations of error concerning the sufficiency of the evidence, the admission of evidence, and other rulings below. “It is the burden of the complaining party, including pro se appellants, to compile a complete record of what happened at the trial level, and when this is not…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Farris v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1999

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Daker v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2016
  2. Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2014
  3. Holman v. the StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2014
  4. Lugo v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2005
  5. Ulysses Holman v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2014

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