Legal Opinion
Cooper v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided January 28, 1987No. 43780PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Weltner, Justice.
James Wallace Cooper was found guilty of aggravated sodomy and sentenced to a term of twenty years in the penitentiary. The Court of Appeals affirmed his conviction. Cooper v. State, 180 Ga. App. 37 (348 SE2d 486) (1986). We granted Cooper’s application for certiorari to consider the elements of the crime of aggravated sodomy, as defined by OCGA § 16-6-2, in light of the holding in Drake v. State, 239 Ga. 232 (236 SE2d 748) (1977).
The victim in this case was a five-year-old female who had been left with Cooper at the home of her grandmother. Cooper was eighteen years of age.…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Drake v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1977
- Carter v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1970
- McFall v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1975
- Cooper v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1986
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