Fatora v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was indicted for manufacturing marijuana. The evidence adduced at trial, construed most favorably to support the jury’s verdict, was as follows: Defendant and his wife reside on an eight and one-half acre parcel of real property in Towns County, Georgia, “[n]ear the community of Young Harris, about a mile from the city limits.” Defendant and his wife have owned this property for “[a]bout 14 years. ...”

During the morning of August 9, 1984, a Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) “task force” was conducting an aerial observation of the Towns County, Georgia…