Crowe v. State

Fletcher, Chief Justice.

A Rockdale County jury convicted Jerry Lewis Crowe of two counts of misdemeanor vehicular homicide and improper backing for his role in a crash on January 27, 2000 that killed two people. The Court of Appeals of Georgia affirmed his convictions, 1 and this Court granted certiorari. Because we find that the trial court abused its discretion when it improperly excluded relevant evidence offered in Crowe’s defense, we reverse. 2

The evidence presented at trial shows that a car driven by Judy Lynn Lynch struck Crowe’s truck as Crowe was improperly backing the truck onto the…