Foster v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Should a juror fall asleep during the course of a trial!,] it is the duty of the trial judge to awaken him. Should counsel or the parties in a trial observe a sleeping juror!,] it is their duty to bring it to the attention of the court.”
• what a litigant may not do is observe a juror sleeping, fail to bring this to the judge’s attention at a time when corrective action may be had, take a chance on a favorable verdict, and only when the verdict is unfavorable move for a mistrial or new trial because of the otiose juror

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 40×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-19· cited 20×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-03-05· cited 16×
• Mathis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-21· cited 14×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-02-07· cited 13×
• Griner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-06-20· cited 11×
• Grogan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-02-13· cited 11×
• Yount v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-05-09· cited 11×
• Hood v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-28· cited 11×
• Peterson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-10-20· cited 9×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-07-07· cited 8×
• Dunn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-02-24· cited 7×
• Armstrong v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-20· cited 6×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-06-14· cited 1×
• Pope v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-30
• Dexter Otis Armstrong v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-20

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Trenor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-03-07· cited 34×
• Cogswell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1872-05-15· cited 19×
• Adkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-11-03· cited 7×
• McConnell v. Haver
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-12-05· cited 1×