Chatham v. State

Undercofler, Justice.

We granted certiorari to determine (1) the merits of the defendant’s plea of double jeopardy, and (2) whether the Court of Appeals correctly held that the defendant could not complain about the court’s charging language taken from a case he cited at the foot of a written request to charge specific language.

This case is a sequel to In re Brookins, 153 Ga. App. 82, 88 (264 SE2d 560) (1980), in which the Colirt of Appeals held that the trial court abused its discretion in finding appellant’s counsel in contempt following a dispute between counsel and the State’s attorney…