Garay 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 the State had presented direct evidence of the defendant’s guilt because a trial witness “testified that [the defendant] confessed that he went to rob the man … [,] but that it went wrong and he ended up shooting the man” (quotation marks omitted)
• “if there is any direct evidence presented by the State, the circumstantial evidence statute does not apply to a sufficiency analysis”
• evidence of a defendant’s flight is circumstantial evidence of his consciousness of guilt
• sufficient evidence to sustain murder conviction, despite lack of forensic evidence directly implicating defendant, when defendant confessed to crimes, fled country after crimes were committed, and crime scene and ballistic evidence corroborated inculpatory witness testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rashad v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 21×
• Drennon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-25· cited 18×
• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 13×
• Adkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-23· cited 10×
• Greene v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-06-21· cited 6×
• EVANS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-30
• BOSTIC v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-30
• David Francis Aitken v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-12-09
• Christian Richards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-09-20
• Welsch v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-02-03

Cites

14 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×
• Landers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-26· cited 51×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 41×
• Graves v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 36×
• Graves v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 32×
• FITTS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-01· cited 32×
• Cochran v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-20· cited 31×
• Howell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 27×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 27×
• Collett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-20· cited 24×
• Rich v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-27· cited 18×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 11×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 5×