Legal Opinion

Evans v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided April 3, 2008No. A08A0802PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BLACKBURN, Presiding Judge.

Following a jury trial, Terry Lamont Evans appeals his conviction for obstructing an officer (felony), 1 arguing that the evidence was insufficient and that the State did not provide proper pretrial notice of the convictions that the State introduced in aggravation at his sentencing. We hold that direct eyewitness testimony that Evans struck a correctional officer while that officer was attempting to handcuff him sufficed to sustain the conviction, and that the State’s written notice that during sentencing, it would rely on the convictions listed in a Georgia Crime…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Short v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1998
  3. Lindsey v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2007
  4. Young v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2000
  5. Mullinax v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2000

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. NORDAHL v. the STATE.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 2018
  2. Beck v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2008
  3. Barstad v. the StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2014
  4. McClam v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2008
  5. Thomas v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2013

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