Legal Opinion

GIBBS v. BRIGHT Et Al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided March 3, 2015No. A14A2324PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

Phipps, Chief Judge.

Indicted on numerous counts of sexual offenses, Troy Lee Gibbs was brought to trial in the Superior Court of Wilkinson County, which proceeding ended by mistrial after the jury failed to reach a verdict. At his second trial, the jury found Gibbs guilty of nine counts of child molestation, two counts of enticing a child for indecent purposes, and two counts of solicitation of sodomy; Gibbs was sentenced to imprisonment. But Gibbs’s convictions were reversed by this court, 3 and after the case was remitted to the superior court in October 2007, an order of nolle prosequi was…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Goldberg v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2007
  2. Mayor of Savannah v. Savannah Electric & Power Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1949
  3. Meinken v. BurgessSupreme Court of Georgia · 1993
  4. Drake v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1984

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. John Doe v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2018

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