Legal Opinion
Wyatt v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided May 4, 1989No. 46648PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, Presiding Justice.
George Ponder Wyatt was convicted of trafficking in cocaine in violation of OCGA § 16-13-31. He was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment and fined $100,000. We affirm.
Wyatt asserts that the evidence does not support the verdict and that the statute’s mandatory fine provision violates the Eighth Amendment of the U. S. Constitution and Art. I, Sec. I, Par. XVII of the 1983 Georgia Constitution.
1. Construed in a light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence showed that Wyatt participated in the sale of three ounces of cocaine to an informant for the Drug…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Bearden v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Coker v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Grant v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1988
- Hargrove v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1984
3Cited by7 opinions
- Fleming v. ZantSupreme Court of Georgia · 1989
- Humphrey v. WilsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 2007
- Flores v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2006
- Green v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1999
- Woodruff v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2000
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