Legal Opinion
Jefferson v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided June 23, 1995No. A95A0475PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, Judge.
In 1990, Eddie Jefferson was arrested for rape, and he subsequently was convicted for three rapes and related offenses. His arrest followed the third offense, which occurred in Turner County, Georgia, during the early morning hours of the day of Jefferson’s eventual arrest. One of the other rapes also occurred in Turner County in late December 1989. This appeal involves the first of these incidents, which also occurred in December 1989, but in Irwin County.
Jefferson was first tried and convicted for the Turner County rapes and several factually related offenses. He appealed from…
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