Legal Opinion

Baker v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided February 12, 1982No. 62987PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Shulman, Presiding Judge.

Alton Baker was convicted of aggravated sodomy involving an 11-year-old girl. His sole enumeration of error on appeal is the sufficiency of the evidence.

Two Polaroid photographs admitted into evidence depicted the child facing an adult male with the male’s sex organ in her mouth. The man’s face was not contained in the pictures. The child identified appellant (her uncle) as the perpetrator who forced her to take the depicted position, and the child’s mother identified appellant as the only adult male who entered the home from the date of the incident to the date the…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Andrews v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1943
  3. State v. SmithCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1975
  4. Powell v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1905
  5. Lovett v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1978

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. LaPalme v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1984
  2. LaPalme v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1984

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