SELLERS v. STATE

No. A03A2103.

587 S.E.2d 276 (2003)

263 Ga. App. 144

SELLERS v. The STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

September 10, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Healy & Svoren, Timothy P. Healy, Nina M. Svoren, Toccoa, for appellant.

Robert W. Lavender, Dist. Atty., Richard K. Bridgeman, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.


ELDRIDGE, Judge.

We granted interlocutory appeal in this criminal case to consider the practice of identifying a minor victim by initials in a charging document. Because this practice does not put a defendant on notice of the particular person against whom the defendant allegedly committed a crime, we conclude that—in a charging instrument challenged pre-trial—the victim's initials are insufficient. Accordingly, we reverse the decision of the court below...

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