Legal Opinion

Bethea v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided September 22, 1972No. 47410PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Eberhardt, Presiding Judge.

The Chief of Police noticed a "hippie-type” man, white, with long hair and ill-clad, driving an old Volkswagen on the street about 3:30 p.m. in a section of town occupied predominately by black people, and shortly afterward received a radio communication that a man of the same general description had been seen in that area with a plastic bag, which he had taken to a place in the rear of some buildings and apparently covered with leaves and straw, had then returned and retrieved the bag, gotten into an old Volkswagen and left. (There was no mention of what the…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Adams v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  2. Beck v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  3. Draper v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
  4. United States v. RabinowitzSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
  5. United States v. Di ReSupreme Court of the United States · 1948

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Kelly v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1973
  2. Hinson v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1998
  3. Cunningham v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1974
  4. Grant v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1979
  5. Harper v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1975

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