State v. Gossett
Decision Date | 09 April 1959 |
Docket Number | No. 20407,20407 |
Parties | STATE v. Bertha GOSSETT, alias Bertha Gossett Hill. |
Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
Chastine Parker, Sol. Gen., Horace T. Clary, Asst. Sol. Gen., Rome, Eugene Cook, Atty. Gen., Rubye G. Jackson, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., for plaintiff in error.
R. L. Addleton, Griffin, for defendant in error.
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State v. Smith
...jurisdiction over an appeal by the State from the grant of an extraordinary motion for new trial. See OCGA § 5-7-1; State v. Gossett, 214 Ga. 840, 108 S.E.2d 272 (1959). "However, it is an elementary rule of pleading that substance, not mere nomenclature, controls." Birt v. State, 256 Ga. 4......
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State v. Martin
...omitted). Prior to 1973, there was no statutory provision in Georgia for appeals by the State in criminal cases. See State v. Gossett, 214 Ga. 840, 108 S.E.2d 272 (1959) (citing State v. Jones, 7 Ga. 422 (1849)). However, in 1973, the General Assembly enacted a law providing the State limit......
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Stynchcombe v. Hardy
...as the State could not appeal such a ruling, no review of the correctness of such a judgment has ever been possible, (see State v. Gossett, 214 Ga. 840, 108 S.E.2d 272), nor does the Act of 1971 provide for the review of such a directed verdict. However, such a situation does not permit the......
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State v. Smith
...570, 176 S.E.2d 102 (1970).2 Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. Redwine, 208 Ga. 261, 263, 66 S.E.2d 234 (1951).3 State v. Gossett, 214 Ga. 840, 841, 108 S.E.2d 272 (1959).4 OCGA § 5-7-1(a)(1-5).5 See OCGA § 5-6-30 to OCGA § 5-6-51.6 OCGA § 5-6-33(a)(1).7 Anything to the contrary in State v.......
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