Legal Opinion
West v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided September 21, 1983No. 39940PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, Justice.
West was indicted in Early County for the murder of Jerry Lester and for aggravated assault on Mose Freeman. A jury convicted him on both counts; he received a life sentence on the murder count and ten years on the aggravated assault to run concurrently. In this appeal he raises the sufficiency of the evidence as to each element of the crime of murder under Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307 (99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560) (1979), the sufficiency of proof of the corpus delicti, and the inability of the state to produce exculpatory evidence which was demanded under Brady v. Maryland,…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Stevens v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1978
- Davis v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1976
- Redfield v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1978
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Baldwin v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1993
- Burson v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1987
- Benford v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1989
- Jones v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2002
- Mitchell v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1987
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