Hubbard v. Hubbard

How courts have described this case

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• reversing after trial court stated his favorable opinion of the witness, bolstering her credibility and thereby “influencing an issue that is solely for the jury to determine”
• saying that a trial judge “‘should not in the hearing of the jury make any remark tending to compliment or disparage a witness’” and holding that, when the trial court stated its “high opinion” of a witness, it improperly “bolstered her credibility” (citation omitted)
• saying that a trial judge “ ‘should not in the hearing of the jury make any remark tending to compliment or disparage a witness’ ” and holding that, when the trial court stated its “high opinion” of a witness, it improperly “bolstered her credibility” (citation omitted)
• saying that a trial judge 6 “‘should not in the hearing of the jury make any remark tending to compliment or disparage a witness’” and holding that, when the trial court stated its “high opinion” of a witness, it improperly “bolstered her credibility” (citation omitted)
• reversal required where trial court praised witness as pillar of community

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Murphy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-06· cited 39×
• John v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-09· cited 23×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 14×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McMillan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-11-16· cited 42×
• Cole v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1909-10-13· cited 7×
• Georgia Power Co. v. Owen
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1950-07-12· cited 6×