Jenkins v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• flight from scene of crime, resistance to arrest, and concealment generally is circumstantial evidence of guilt
• evidence that appellant evaded a police roadblock after crimes was “properly admitted as flight evidence, which is generally intrinsic”
• evidence of flight, concealment, assumption of a false name, and other related conduct is evidence of guilt
• “[T]he fact of an accused’s … concealment ... is admissible as evidence of consciousness of guilt for the charged offense, and thus of guilt itself.” (cleaned up)
• an accused’s flight, resistance to arrest, concealment, and other related conduct “is admissible as evidence of consciousness of guilt for the charged offense, and thus of guilt itself” (citations and punctuation omitted)
• the fact of “concealment” or “assumption of a false name . . . is admissible as evidence of consciousness of guilt for the charged offense, and thus of guilt itself” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Scoggins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 29×
• Early v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-03· cited 13×
• Maynor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 9×
• Bowman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-08-13· cited 8×
• Weston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-10· cited 5×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-06-11· cited 5×
• Guyton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 4×
• State v. Green
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 3×
• Stewart Cabrera-Zamarripa v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-05-15
• Felton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-16
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-10-21
• Stitts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-11-04
• Ragland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-04-21
• Dempsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-02-17
• Hodges v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-05-19

Cites

14 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×
• Olds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 258×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 97×
• State v. Orr
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-06· cited 84×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-03-10· cited 53×
• Lockhart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-01· cited 44×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 41×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 37×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 36×
• Boyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 32×
• FITTS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-01· cited 32×
• Rawls v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 23×
• McKie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 14×