Gomillion v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• jury instructed not to consider indictment as evidence so that erroneously circled guilty on the indictment did not influence jury
• “Failure to object to a court’s charge[ ] ... is not ineffective assistance where the appellant does not show how this prejudiced his case.”
• “qualified jurors under oath are presumed to follow the instructions of the trial court”
• “Waiver of arraignment provides no basis for a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel when [defendant] does not claim he was unaware of the charges against him, which is the purpose of arraignment.”
• “Waiver of arraignment provides no basis for a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel when [defendant] does not claim he was unaware of the charges against him, which is the purpose of arraignment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).