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 the trial court did not err by ruling that the appellant’s lawyer waived the right to a hearing on the motion for new trial by failing to appear
• unauthorized request for leave of absence amounts to waiver of right to hearing on motion for new trial
• waiver of a defendant’s statutory speedy trial demand “ ‘may result from any act that shows a defendant affirmatively consented to passing the case until a later term’ ”
• “[O]ur legal system is not simply an elaborate game of ‘Gotcha!’ . . . The object of all legal investigation is the truth, and procedural rules are in place to further such goal in an orderly fashion.”
• “[O]ur legal system is not simply an elaborate game of ‘Gotcha!’ . . . The object of all legal investigation is the truth, and procedural rules are in place to further such goal in an orderly fashion.”
• filing defective notice of leave of absence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Higuera-Hernandez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-11· cited 26×
• Oni v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-10· cited 14×
• State v. Javaris Brown
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-08-10· cited 14×
• Twiggs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-27· cited 8×
• Trimble v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-07-21· cited 6×
• In the Interest of E. T., a Child
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-09-08· cited 3×
• Murray v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-11-23· cited 2×
• State v. Summage
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-29· cited 1×
• State v. Javaris Brown
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-06-22
• Tadarius Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-07-13
• Ayla King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-10-28

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Fletcher v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-05-16· cited 23×
• Day v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-05-16· cited 16×
• Fisher v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-04-30· cited 15×
• Sykes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-03· cited 14×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 10×
• Price v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-06-09· cited 8×
• Mimms v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-03-13· cited 7×
• Linkous v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-02-05· cited 7×
• State v. Dodge
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-08-09· cited 5×
• Dunn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-09-18· cited 3×