Bowman v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]here was competing expert testimony concerning [the defendant’s] sanity, and the jury was not required to accept the opinion of the defense experts.”
• Criminal intent may be found based “‘upon consideration of the words, conduct, demeanor, motive, and all other circumstances connected with the act for which the accused is prosecuted.’ OCGA § 16-2-6.”
• “In Georgia, a defendant is presumed to be sane and a defendant asserting an insanity defense has the burden to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that he was insane at the time the crime was committed.” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• McELRATH v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 37×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-09· cited 9×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 8×
• Middlebrooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-21· cited 6×
• Bowman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-03
• Gravitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-10-21
• In Re Jason Adams
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-03-13

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 191×
• Alvelo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 65×
• Fuss v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-06· cited 19×
• Boswell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 17×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 6×
• Buford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-07· cited 5×