Legal Opinion

Taylor v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided January 9, 1985No. 41339PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Smith, Justice.

A Cobb County jury found appellant, Richard Taylor, guilty of the felony murder of Steven Patrick Hardy and the aggravated assault of Thurston Bearden. Appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder with a concurrent ten-year sentence for aggravated assault. Appellant enumerates ten errors based generally on insufficiency of the evidence, denial of admission of polygraph examination results into evidence, and the state’s representation during trial that Bearden had no interest in the outcome of the , trial. We affirm.

Appellant and a passenger had stopped at a traffic…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Williams v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1983
  3. State v. ChambersSupreme Court of Georgia · 1977
  4. Smith v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1983

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Murray v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1999
  2. McKee v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2006
  3. Childs v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1985

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