Legal Opinion
Tanner v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 25, 1978No. 33934PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Nichols, Chief Justice.
Tanner appeals his conviction for the murder of his former father-in-law. He received a life sentence. The evidence will not be summarized because the general grounds were not argued.
1. After jury deliberations had begun, and after the jury had been told that arrangements would be made for them to stay overnight, a juror informed the court that she had to go home to take care of her sick husband. The court excused her and substituted in her place the alternate juror. Tanner contends that the trial court erred in substituting the alternate juror for the juror who was…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- People v. CollinsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1976
- Floyd v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1974
- People v. RyanNew York Court of Appeals · 1966
- Lamb v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1978
- Wilson v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1978
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3Cited by25 opinions
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- Green v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1980
- Roosevelt Green, Jr. v. Walter D. ZantCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1983
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