Nicely v. State

Ellington, Judge.

A White County jury found Willis Nicely guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of possession of cocaine, OCGA § 16-13-30 (a). Following the denial of his motion for a new trial, Nicely appeals, contending, inter alia, that the superior court erred in denying his double jeopardy plea in bar to the cocaine possession prosecution. Specifically, Nicely contends that, once the State prosecuted him for a traffic violation that arose from the same incident and accepted his plea of nolo contendere to that charge, Georgia’s procedural bar against double jeopardy barred any prosecution of…