Hovis v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• trial counsel was not ineffective where he articulated a valid strategic reason for not objecting to purported bad character evidence
• failure to object to testimony that defendant did not have a driver’s license was not erroneous since the testimony supported the defense theory and provided an alternative explanation for defendant’s act of leaving the scene of the accident
• failure to object to testimony that defendant did not have a driver’s license was not erroneous since the testimony supported the defense theory and provided an alternative explanation for defendant’s act of leaving the scene of the accident

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Adams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-10-25· cited 24×
• Bryson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-29· cited 23×
• Golden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-17· cited 9×
• Murkerson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-12-15· cited 1×
• Julius Bryson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-29

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Slade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-12-04· cited 69×
• Gomillion v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-01-08· cited 35×
• Langlois v. Wolford
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-09-19· cited 29×
• Bogan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-04-13· cited 27×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-12-01· cited 5×