Legal Opinion

Price v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided April 13, 1998No. S98A0054PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Fletcher, Presiding Justice.

Jason Todd Price was convicted of the murder of Alicia Fair-cloth. He contends that the trial court erred in allowing his former girlfriend to explain that she did not report the crime to police for more than two months because she feared Price. Because the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting this relevant testimony, we affirm.

1. The evidence presented at trial shows that Faircloth disappeared during the early hours of June 4, 1995, after a fight with her boyfriend at a pool hall. On August 17, Price’s girlfriend Taura King told a jail chaplain…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Harper v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1982
  3. State v. ChambersSupreme Court of Georgia · 1977
  4. Baxter v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1985
  5. Holcomb v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1997

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3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Parrish v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1999
  2. Wolfe v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2001
  3. Edge v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2002
  4. Evans v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2007
  5. Drake v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1999

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