Legal Opinion
Livingston v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 15, 1996No. S95A1932PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Benham, Chief Justice.
This appeal is from Livingston’s conviction for aggravated assault on a police officer. It came to this Court seeking construction of the Fifth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution and asserting various errors in the conduct of the trial. Although we do not reach the constitutional issue asserted by Livingston (see Division 2, below), we agree with Livingston, for the reasons stated in Division 1, that he is entitled to a new trial.
In the early morning hours of March 4, 1994, a law enforcement officer who stopped a truck driven by Livingston was shot in the chest. The…
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