Legal Opinion

HOOD v. the STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided October 19, 2017No. A17A1147PublishedCited by 11 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Mercier, Judge.

*230 On April 18, 2011, James Hood pled guilty in the Superior Court of Polk County to one count of child molestation and one count of statutory rape. On the same date, the trial court sentenced Hood to 20 years (10 to serve, with the remainder on probation) on Count 5, statutory rape, and to 15 years of probation on Count 1, child molestation, to run consecutively to Count 5. The sentencing order was entered on April 25, 2011. On January 4, 2016, acting pro se, Hood filed a "Motion to Vacate Void Sentence," contending that the statutory rape charge should have merged into the…

2Cases cited11 opinions

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  5. Richards v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2002

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