Legal Opinion
State v. Dixon
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 15, 2010No. S09G1130PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NAHMIAS, Justice.
A DeKalb County jury convicted Andrew Dixon, Jr., on two counts of armed robbery for stealing a truck and personal belongings from a man at a DeKalb County car wash. Dixon admitted at trial that he stole the truck but claimed he took it from a gas station in Clayton County. He requested that the trial court instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of theft by taking. The trial court refused, noting that a DeKalb County jury could not convict him of a theft by taking that took place entirely in Clayton County. The Court of Appeals reversed. See Dixon v. State, 296 Ga.…
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