Legal Opinion

Hicks v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided August 21, 2006No. A06A1626PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Phipps, Judge.

Tony Hicks a/k/a Tommy Hicks was tried by a jury and convicted of selling cocaine. He claims that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction and that the trial court erred by reseating four jurors during jury selection and by refusing to allow him to enter a guilty plea. We conclude that the evidence was sufficient to support the verdict and find no merit in Hicks’s other claims. Thus, we affirm.

Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence showed that on June 7, 2002, two agents with the Altamaha Drug Task Force were working undercover to purchase…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. North Carolina v. AlfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  3. Purkett v. ElemSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
  4. Georgia v. McCollumSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
  5. Lingo v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1993

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Brown v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2011
  2. Smith v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2008
  3. Douglas v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2011
  4. Varner v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2010

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