Supreme Court of Georgia, 1980

The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed the denial of Timberlake’s amended motion for a new trial after his murder conviction. It held that the alleged confessions were inadmissible hearsay and that Timberlake had not shown due diligence in discovering them; it also rejected his claims based on a photograph, evidence…

The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed the retrial judgment in which a jury upheld Canal Insurance Company's equitable set-aside of two default judgments, resolving all thirteen enumerations of error against the appellants and denying Canal's motion to dismiss the appeal as untimely.