Legal Opinion
Gilstrap v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided April 5, 1983No. 39587PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Gregory, Justice.
Eugene Gilstrap, Jr. was convicted of the aggravated assault of Cora Sharp and the murder of Luther Zinamon. The defendant was sentenced to ten years for the aggravated assault to run consecutively to the sentence of life imprisonment imposed for the conviction of murder.
At trial Cora Sharp testified that at approximately 9:00 p. m. on November 7, 1981 she was travelling down Johnson Road in Fulton County when she heard a noise sounding like “a shot” or a “tire blowing out.” Looking in her rearview mirror she saw that a taxicab had crashed into a utility pole. As Sharp backed…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Stovall v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Kirby v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Favors v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1975
3Cited by27 opinions
- Williams v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1983
- E.J. Wilson, Dearest Davis, and Cassandra Linder, Plaintiffs v. Roland AttawayCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
- Matthews v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1997
- Hightower v. General Motors Corp.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1986
- Tilley v. PageCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1986
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