Legal Opinion

Davis v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided April 16, 1986No. 72127PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Deen, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, Charles Davis, was indicted, together with Charles Riggins and Harvey McCauley, for first degree arson. Davis and Mc-Cauley were tried and convicted jointly, but they appealed their convictions separately; Riggins pleaded guilty. This court reversed Mc-Cauley’s conviction for insufficiency of evidence. McCauley v. State, 177 Ga. App. 426 (339 SE2d 399) (1986).

On August 12, 1983, while he was out of town, the appellant’s private residence was extensively damaged by a fire. The Douglas Fire Department appeared at the scene shortly after having been alerted…

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2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Michigan v. TylerSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  2. Gibbons v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1982
  3. Michigan v. CliffordSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  4. Gunter v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1979
  5. State v. YoungSupreme Court of Georgia · 1975

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. EllisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1988
  2. Warren McCleskey v. Walter Zant, Superintendent, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1990
  3. Miners v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2001
  4. Slaughter v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1987
  5. Peabody v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1989

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