256 Ga. App. 377 - State v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
2
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Drake v. State · 243 Ga. App. 868 - Dennard v. State · Vines v. State · State v. Collins · 209 Ga. App. 97 - Dunbar v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[i]f ... the words of the statute are ambiguous, then this Court must construe the statute, keeping in mind the purpose of the statute and the old law, the evil, and the remedy. OCGA § 1-3-1 (a).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Moreover, because this is a criminal statute, it must be strictly construed against the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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