Legal Opinion

Smith v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided May 16, 2008No. A08A0443PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

RUFFIN, Presiding Judge.

A jury found Willie Smith guilty of burglary, kidnapping with bodily injury, rape, aggravated assault, robbery, and theft by taking. Smith appeals, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence and the admission of a particular photograph of the victim. For the foregoing reasons, we affirm.

On appeal from a criminal conviction, we view the evidence in a light favorable to the verdict, and the defendant no longer enjoys a presumption of innocence. We neither weigh the evidence nor resolve issues of witness credibility, but merely determine whether the evidence was…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Gulley v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1999
  3. Clark v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2007
  4. Williams v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2004
  5. Moody v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2006

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Bufford v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2013
  2. Sanchez v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2013
  3. Rafael Sanchez v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2013
  4. Robert Bufford v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2013

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