299 Ga. App. 21 - Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
2
states following
March 2014
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Bruton v. United States · New York v. Belton · Johnson v. State · Anderson v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Under OCGA § 24-4-6, upon which the jury was instructed, to warrant a conviction on circumstantial evidence, the proved facts shall not only be consistent with the hypothesis of guilt, but shall exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused. Questions as to the reasonableness of hypotheses are generally to be decided by the jury which heard the evidence and where the jury is authorized to find that the evidence, although circumstantial, was sufficient to exclude every reasonable hypothesis save that of guilt, that finding will not be disturbed on appeal unless the verdict of guilty is insupportable as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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