Davenport v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “public policy prohibits a district attorney from prosecuting a case, … while representing the 7 victim of the alleged criminal act in a divorce proceeding involving the accused” because “[u]nder such circumstances there is at least the appearance of impropriety”
• appearance of impropriety where district attorney represented a husband in a divorce action at the same time he was participating in the prosecution of the wife for shooting the husband
• appearance of impropriety denies the defendant a fair trial
• appearance of impropriety denies the defendant a fair trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Frazier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-12-01· cited 124×
• People v. Vasquez
  California Supreme Court· 2006-07-10· cited 64×
• Pruitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-19· cited 59×
• State v. Eldridge
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1997-05-07· cited 47×
• Huddleston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-03-02· cited 29×
• Brooks v. Zebre
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1990-05-17· cited 27×
• Lamb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-07-15· cited 23×
• Shuttleworth v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1984-10-31· cited 13×
• State v. Hatfield
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1984-10-12· cited 12×
• Amusement Sales, Inc. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-11· cited 7×
• Hughes v. Bowers
  N.D. Georgia· 1989-03-02· cited 3×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-02-12· cited 3×
• State v. Sutherland
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-02-22· cited 1×
• Brett Richard Yeiter v. State of Alabama (Appeal from Escambia Circuit Court: CC-15-42)
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2024-06-28
• State v. ROMAN (Nine Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-16
• Amusement Sales, Inc. v. State of Georgia
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-11

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Clifton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1939-02-15· cited 93×
• Conley v. Arnold
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1894-08-31· cited 26×
• Nichols v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1916-02-04· cited 21×
• Lane v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-02-23· cited 18×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-01-09· cited 9×
• Haynes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-04-18· cited 6×
• Deyton v. Davenport
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-04-22· cited 2×