Hightower 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 court’s comment that a doctor was “a frequent witness in Fulton Courts” indicated nothing about the defendant’s guilt
• holding that the trial court’s statement that a doctor was a “frequent witness in Fulton Court” was not clear and obvious error because the comment indicated nothing about the doctor’s guilt, did not relate to a disputed issue, and had no likelihood of affecting the outcome of the trial
• aggravated assault and aggravated battery counts involving same victim did not merge because they “did not clearly charge the same conduct” and the evidence showed that there were two rounds of shots, separated by a deliberate interval, that resulted in different injuries
• trial court expression of opinion on the facts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 247×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 38×
• Ivey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 34×
• Huff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 32×
• Castillo-Velasquez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-04-15· cited 26×
• Bamberg v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 22×
• Price v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-04-19· cited 8×
• Johnson v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 4×
• Ronnie Lee Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-10-25
• Latwon Dukes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-06-22
• Myron Lee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-02-13

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Vega v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 340×
• Regent v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-06· cited 41×
• Watson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-07· cited 34×
• Oliphant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-16· cited 17×
• Felton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-09-24· cited 7×