Legal Opinion
White v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided February 15, 1979No. 34152PublishedCited by 129 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
Dr. White was convicted of prescribing controlled substances for other than legitimate purposes in violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act. Two agents of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, posing as patients, visited Dr. White’s office and demanded that he give them prescriptions for drugs. The doctor claims that he issued the prescriptions because he feared the "patients.”
On appeal to the Court of Appeals, Dr. White enumerated error on the trial court’s omission to give an instruction on duress though he neither requested such a charge nor objected to the omission…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- State v. StonakerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1976
- Edwards v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1975
- Gaither v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1975
- Thomas v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1975
- Hill v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1976
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3Cited by129 opinions
- Jackson v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1980
- Johnny Mack Westbrook v. Walter B. Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1983
- Taylor v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1992
- Braley v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2002
- Roulain v. MartinSupreme Court of Georgia · 1996
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