Legal Opinion
Taylor v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided September 4, 1990No. A90A1303PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Beasley, Judge.
Defendant, convicted of possession of firearms by a convicted felon (OCGA § 16-11-131), contends denial of his motion for new trial was error. The motion was based on grounds he was deprived of an evidentiary hearing on his motion to suppress and, if the motion were meritless as held by the trial court, he was deprived of effective assistance of counsel.
1. The first enumeration contends there was a failure to give an evidentiary hearing on the suppression motion, depriving defendant of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
The motion was filed on December 27, 1988, and the…
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- Smith v. HopperSupreme Court of Georgia · 1977
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