Legal Opinion
Sapp v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided November 21, 2011No. S11A0964PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HINES, Justice.
Raymond Trey Sapp appeals his convictions for the felony murder of Simpson Tyrone Cates, criminal attempt to possess cocaine, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.1 For the reasons that follow, we affirm in part and vacate in part.
*248Construed to support the verdicts, the evidence showed that Cates’s cousin Carlos Pressley was a seller of illegal drugs. A relative of Sapp’s, his co-indictee Christopher Derek Chance, was a regular customer of Pressley’s. At 6:00 p.m. Friday, November 28, 2008, Sapp and Chance met Cates and Pressley on a rural road to…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- State v. KellySupreme Court of Georgia · 2011
- State v. JacksonSupreme Court of Georgia · 2010
- Roper v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2007
- White v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2006
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3Cited by17 opinions
- Cheddersingh v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2012
- Chance v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2012
- Brown v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2015
- Brown v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2012
- Whorton v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2012
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