Akins v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• the trial court properly refused to consider a motion for new trial filed after this Court reversed the appellant’s death sentence as unconstitutional with direction to enter a life sentence
• “The defendant must raise all issues on his first and only appeal, for judgment on that appeal is conclusive of all issues raised or which could have been raised.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Benefield v. State Ex Rel. Baker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-01-13· cited 12×
• Zant v. Akins
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-28· cited 11×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-01· cited 11×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-06· cited 8×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-06-20· cited 2×
• Bundren v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-10-19· cited 1×
• Davidson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-09-16· cited 1×
• Cleavon Young v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-05-19

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1932-02-18· cited 24×
• Akins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-11-09· cited 23×
• Federal Investment Co. v. Ewing
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1928-04-13· cited 17×
• Wiggins v. Tyson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1901-02-25· cited 15×
• Rahal v. Titus
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1964-07-08· cited 12×
• Bird v. Riggs
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1954-01-11· cited 5×