241 Ga. App. 164 - Eberhart v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2021
19 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · 195 Ga. App. 463 - Grant v. State · 208 Ga. App. 12 - Williams v. State · 166 Ga. App. 855 - Parham v. State · 233 Ga. App. 781 - Grimsley v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“The intention with which an act is done is peculiarly for the jury [or finder of fact]. It is often difficult to prove with direct evidence an individual's intent as it existed at the time of the act for which they are being prosecuted. Therefore, it is often necessary to prove such intent through the use of circumstantial evidence. Intent, which is a mental attitude, is commonly detectible only inferentially, and the law accommodates this. OCGA § 16-2-6. A [finder of fact] may infer that a person acted with criminal intent after considering the words, conduct, demeanor, motive, and all other circumstances connected with the act for which the accused is prosecuted. In order to support a conviction, such circumstantial evidence does not have to exclude every possible hypothesis other than the defendant's guilt, but only reasonable hypotheses. OCGA § 24-4-6. Whether a hypothesis is reasonable is a question for a the [finder of fact], and such finding will not be disturbed on appeal unless the guilty verdict is unsupportable as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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