Legal Opinion

Pressley v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided April 12, 1949No. 16578PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Duckworth , Chief Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) If the evidence in this record is sufficient to authorize a jury to find that the defendant and John Howard Long entered into a conspiracy to commit the crime charged in the indictment, and that this criminal enterprise had not terminated when Long made the declarations concerning the crime, then such statements are evidence against the defendant, and the court did not err as contended in the first five grounds of the amended motion for new trial. Since all of these special grounds complain because the witness McLemore was allowed…

2Cases cited24 opinions

  1. Lewis v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1943
  2. Wall v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1922
  3. Burns v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1940
  4. Carter v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1899
  5. Davis v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1901

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3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Pressley v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1950
  2. McVeigh v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1949
  3. Davis v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1973
  4. Clarke v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1965
  5. El Pueblo de Puerto Rico v. Castro AnguitaSupreme Court of Puerto Rico · 1953

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