STATE v. BELT

No. S97G1838.

505 S.E.2d 1 (1998)

269 Ga. 763

The STATE v. BELT.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

September 21, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tommy Kenneth Floyd, Dist. Atty., Blair Douglas Mahaffey, Asst. Dist. Atty., McDonough, for the State.

Lloyd Johnson Matthews, Hampton, for Christopher Belt.


THOMPSON, Justice.

We granted certiorari to the Court of Appeals in Belt v. State, 227 Ga.App. 425, 489 S.E.2d 157 (1997), to answer this question: "Whether it is reversible error for a trial court, absent a request, to fail to instruct a jury that similar transaction evidence admitted for a limited purpose must be considered only for the limited purpose for which it was admitted." We...

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