McGee v. Jones
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1DissentBirdsong, Presiding Judge
Although I concur with the majority in Divisions 1 through 4, I must respectfully dissent from Division 5 because I cannot agree with the majority’s conclusion that Tolbert v. Duckworth, 262 Ga. 622 (423 SE2d 229) abolished the defense of legal accident. Further, I must also dissent because I cannot agree that the trial court did not err by allowing Jones’ counsel to argue that there is no such thing as a legal accident, by admonishing McGee’s counsel about what he should not be arguing about, and by asserting that McGee’s counsel’s argument was fiction because there is no such thing as a…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Renner v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1990
- Bell v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1994
- Central of Georgia Railroad v. SwindleSupreme Court of Georgia · 1990
- Tolbert v. DuckworthSupreme Court of Georgia · 1992
- Garrison v. Rich'sCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1980
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