Legal Opinion

Anderson v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided February 6, 2013No. A12A2040PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PHIPPS, Presiding Judge.

Tiffany Anderson appeals her conviction for criminal trespass. She contends that the trial court erred in refusing to give her requested jury charge on voluntary intoxication. We affirm.

Atrial court’s refusal to give a requested jury charge is not error unless the request is entirely correct and accurate; is adjusted to the pleadings, law, and evidence; and is not *702otherwise covered in the general charge. And we review a trial court’s refusal to give a requested jury charge under an abuse-of-discretion standard.1

The evidence pertinently showed that on April 25, 2010,…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Pope v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1986
  2. Gilreath v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1981
  3. Bright v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1995
  4. Nash v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1999
  5. Foster v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1988

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Slaughter v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2014
  2. Strapp v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2014
  3. Kenneth Slaughter v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2014
  4. Winston Strapp v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2014

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