Legal Opinion
Holsey v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided December 2, 1999No. S99P1112PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Fletcher, Presiding Justice.
A jury convicted Robert Wayne Holsey of murder in the shooting *857death of Deputy Sheriff Will Robinson.1 The jury fixed the sentence for the murder at death. Holsey appeals, contending that he was absent from a jury view at which the trial court and an unsworn store clerk answered questions from jurors. Because Holsey later acquiesced in the improprieties occurring during the jury view, we affirm.
The evidence at trial showed that shortly before 1:30 a.m. on December 17, 1995, Holsey entered the Jet Food Store in Milledgeville with a gun and demanded money. After…
2Cases cited37 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Florida v. RoyerSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
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3Cited by53 opinions
- Schofield v. HolseySupreme Court of Georgia · 2007
- Robert Wayne Holsey v. Warden, Georgia Diagonstic PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2012
- Humphreys v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2010
- King v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2000
- Ward v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2011
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