Jones 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 any error in trial court’s failure to give justification instruction was harmless in prosecution for murder because evidence supporting conviction made it highly probable that the jury’s verdict was unaffected by such refusal
• holding it was highly probable that the jury’s verdict was unaffected by any error in the trial court’s refusal to instruct the jury on justification because the evidence of the defendant’s guilt was strong and any evidence supporting the charge “was meager at best”
• “The test for determining whether a nonconstitutional instructional error was harmless is whether it is highly probable that the error did not contribute to the verdict.”
• harmless error to fail to charge jury on defense of self or third person because “to the extent there was any evidence supporting a charge on defense of self or a third person, it was meager at best”
• any error in failing to charge jury on defense of self or third person was harmless because “evidence supporting a charge on defense of self or a third person . . . 16 was meager at best”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Perkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 35×
• McIver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 29×
• Munn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 27×
• Monroe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-03-07· cited 18×
• Redding v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 12×
• Reese v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-08-21· cited 12×
• Gray v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-14· cited 7×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-12-14· cited 3×
• Depriest v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-01· cited 3×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 1×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 1×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-03-07· cited 1×
• Emery Parrish v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-01-18
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-02

Cites

15 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×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-02· cited 159×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 131×
• DAVIS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 67×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 64×
• Palmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-21· cited 51×
• Graham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 44×
• McCLAIN v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-02-05· cited 24×
• Lopez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-07· cited 13×
• Calmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-01· cited 13×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-21· cited 10×
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 10×
• Walton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-02-05· cited 9×
• Hatney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-06· cited 7×