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Fuente: Caselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab (static.case.law); Court of Appeals of Georgia; 166 Ga. App. 172. Datos: https://static.case.law/ga-app/166/cases/0172-01.json. Opinión judicial de EE.UU. sin restricciones conocidas de uso: CAP levantó las restricciones el 2024-03-01 (prensa); el espejo HF free-law declara cc0-1.0; NO c… Abrir la fuente
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Gann v. State, 166 Ga. App. 172 (Court of Appeals of Georgia, 1983) Birdsong, Judge. Melvin Gann and Jimmy Lee Jackson were tried jointly for armed robbery, found guilty of the lesser offense of robbery, and each sentenced to serve 15 years, ten years incarcerated and five years probated. The alleged victim of the robbery, 35-year-old Ronald Ivey, from Sparta, North Carolina, suffers from severe epilepsy which requires him to take several medications constantly; because of his illness, he has never held a job. When he drinks alcohol, he is subject to grand mal seizures during which his strength is greatly magnified and he is unaware of his movements. The robbery took place on the night of Saturday, May 1,1982. According to Ivey’s testimony, he had gone to Chattanooga, Tennessee to visit his children, and was at the Chattanooga bus station waiting to return to North Carolina when two men, identified as the appellants, approached him. Ivey’s statement is not clear as to whether the two men offered Ivey $10 to drive them to Birmingham, Alabama in their car, or whether they offered to drive Ivey to Birmingham for $10. At any rate, Ivey fell in with the pair and all three left the bus station to get gasoline. Ivey had a $50 bill; he bought $5 worth of gas for appellants’ car. They went back to the bus station to pick up Ivey’s suitcase, then “they [the appellants] insisted on stopping at this liquor store which they had kept on and on harping about.” Ivey bought and paid for…
Fuente: Caselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab (static.case.law); Court of Appeals of Georgia; 166 Ga. App. 172. Datos: https://static.case.law/ga-app/166/cases/0172-01.json. Opinión judicial de EE.UU. sin restricciones conocidas de uso: CAP levantó las restricciones el 2024-03-01 (prensa); el espejo HF free-law declara cc0-1.0; NO c… Abrir la fuente
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Gann v. State, 166 Ga. App. 172 (Court of Appeals of Georgia, 1983) Birdsong, Judge. Melvin Gann and Jimmy Lee Jackson were tried jointly for armed robbery, found guilty of the lesser offense of robbery, and each sentenced to serve 15 years, ten years incarcerated and five years probated. The alleged victim of the robbery, 35-year-old Ronald Ivey, from Sparta, North Carolina, suffers from severe epilepsy which requires him to take several medications constantly; because of his illness, he has never held a job. When he drinks alcohol, he is subject to grand mal seizures during which his strength is greatly magnified and he is unaware of his movements. The robbery took place on the night of Saturday, May 1,1982. According to Ivey’s testimony, he had gone to Chattanooga, Tennessee to visit his children, and was at the Chattanooga bus station waiting to return to North Carolina when two men, identified as the appellants, approached him. Ivey’s statement is not clear as to whether the two men offered Ivey $10 to drive them to Birmingham, Alabama in their car, or whether they offered to drive Ivey to Birmingham for $10. At any rate, Ivey fell in with the pair and all three left the bus station to get gasoline. Ivey had a $50 bill; he bought $5 worth of gas for appellants’ car. They went back to the bus station to pick up Ivey’s suitcase, then “they [the appellants] insisted on stopping at this liquor store which they had kept on and on harping about.” Ivey bought and paid for…