153 Ga. App. 459 - Mayfield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
February 1994
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Moore v. State · Joyner v. State · Harris v. State · 143 Ga. App. 169 - Johnson v. State · 93 Ga. App. 345 - Horne v. State
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“The necessity of the charge on circumstantial evidence in Horne v. State, supra ..., arose because if the jury in that case found the witness[es] offering the direct evidence to have been impeached, the jury was left to decide the defendant's guilt or innocence entirely from circumstantial evidence without any instruction upon the law of circumstantial evidence. In the case sub judice the [S]tate's case is predicated entirely upon the direct evidence offered by the [victims]. If the jury determines [these witnesses were] impeached, then there would be no other evidence authorizing a verdict of guilty. Therefore, in this case there is no issue requiring the charge on the law of circumstantial evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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