Legal Opinion
Cloud v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided November 29, 2011No. S11A0927PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HINES, Justice.
Joe Elvin Cloud appeals his convictions for the malice murder of Rocky Heard (“Rocky”), the aggravated assault of Ray Dean Heard (“Ray Dean”), possession of a firearm during the commission of the crime of aggravated assault, affray, and simple battery.1 For the reasons that follow, we affirm in part and vacate in part.
Construed to support the verdicts, the evidence showed that on August 29, 2005, Cloud was driving his pickup truck, in which a business associate, Mike Maugeri, was a passenger. Cloud nearly had a collision with a vehicle driven by the wife of Ray Dean, in which…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Smith v. FrancisSupreme Court of Georgia · 1985
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