Favors v. State

How courts have described this case

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• possession of a firearm by a convicted felon requires that the previous felony conviction be proven to the jury as one of the elements of the crime
• defendant's pre-existing status as a convicted felon is an essential element of the crime of violating OCGA § 16-11-131 (b)
• defendant’s pre-existing status as a convicted felon is an essential element of the crime of violating OCGA § 16-11-131 (b)
• “Unlike the recidivist statutes, OCGA § 16-11-131 (b) requires that the previous felony conviction be proved to the jury as one of the elements of the crime. [Cits.]” (Emphasis supplied.)
• the trial court’s failure to redact indictment’s reference to prior convictions “was of little if any consequence” where the jury was legitimately made aware of the prior convictions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Mize v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-15· cited 105×
• State v. Freeman
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-02-12· cited 33×
• Ross v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-08-20· cited 20×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-11-27· cited 20×
• Rhodes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-06-26· cited 20×
• Wainwright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-05-06· cited 18×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-05-11· cited 16×
• State v. Sears
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-12-02· cited 15×
• Cole v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-05-05· cited 15×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-04-17· cited 12×
• Warren v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-08· cited 11×
• NORDAHL v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-02-26· cited 9×
• Eiland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-05-11· cited 8×
• Price v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-06-03· cited 8×
• Baker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-09-13· cited 7×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-12-10· cited 6×
• Palmer v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-02-12· cited 4×
• Flagg v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-05-31· cited 3×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-01-24· cited 3×
• Marshall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-10-26· cited 1×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Head v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-10-17· cited 117×
• Black v. Caldwell
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-01-07· cited 48×
• State v. Hendrixson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-01-05· cited 46×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-01-04· cited 38×
• Prather v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-07-07· cited 23×
• Bogan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-01-30· cited 20×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-09-26· cited 20×
• Stone v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-10-17· cited 18×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-05-29· cited 18×
• Biggers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-04-07· cited 17×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-04-27· cited 14×
• Head v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-02-27· cited 9×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-01-07· cited 7×
• Grant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-10-07· cited 7×
• Evans v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-09-26· cited 6×
• Camp v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-07-07· cited 6×
• Sheffield v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-09-15· cited 3×