Legal Opinion

Knight v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided January 30, 1975No. 50033PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Stolz, Judge.

Defendants Knight and Suttles appeal from their convictions of burglary, for which they were sentenced to 7 and 5 years respectively.

1. The admission in evidence of photographs of the interior of the burglarized house, taken on the day after the crime was committed and showing ransacking of the house, was not error. " 'One of the exceptions to the rule that on prosecution for a particular crime evidence which tends to show that the defendant committed another crime wholly independent from that for which he is on trial is irrelevant and inadmissible, is where the other crime is a…

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2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Clenney v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1972
  2. Young v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1970
  3. Spurlin v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1971
  4. Eiland v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1973
  5. Katzensky v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1971

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Clark v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1976
  2. Workman v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1976
  3. Allanson v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1975
  4. Anderson v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1977
  5. Harrison v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1975

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