Legal Opinion

Fleming v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided March 16, 1998No. S97A1659PublishedCited by 15 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Hunstein, Justice.

Maurice Fleming was sentenced to life imprisonment for the felony murder of Robert Franklin Hodges.1 Finding no reversible error, *246we affirm.

1. Evidence adduced at trial authorized the jury to find that appellant had talked with others about robbing the victim’s grocery store some weeks before October 8, 1993. On that day, appellant and Cedric Brown discussed the need to leave town due to the fact that both men had failed to appear at a scheduled court hearing that morning and knew bench warrants had issued for them. The two men, together with Jamel Jenkins and Shawn Brown,…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  3. Frazier v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1987
  4. Waldrip v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1997
  5. Tharpe v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1992

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3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Hamm v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2014
  2. Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2000
  3. Woodall v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2014
  4. Ash v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2021
  5. Bryant v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1999

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