GA 16-11-32 - GA 16-11-32

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Reversal required when venue not established. - Although the evidence was sufficient to support the delinquency adjudication, the judgment was reversed where the testimony relating to the street where the fight occurred failed to specify either the municipality or the county in which the street was located and was not sufficient to establish venue beyond a reasonable doubt. In the Geistest of N.T.S., 242 Ga. App. 109 , 528 S.E.2d 876 (2000). It is essential to conviction of affray that fighting occurred in public place. Gamble v. State, 113 Ga. 701 , 39 S.E. 301 (1901). What constitutes a public place. - See Gamble v. State, 113 Ga. 701 , 39 S.E. 301 (1910). Jail is not a public place. - Defendant's conviction for affray in violation of O.C.G.A. § 16-11-32 was reversed b...