Kitchens v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• assuming error in the admission of hearsay testimony, it was highly probable that the admission did not contribute to the verdict given the strong evidence of appellant’s 22 guilt
• applying the nonconstitutional harmless error standard to the 14 appellant’s hearsay claim
• “The test for determining nonconstitutional harmless error is whether it is highly probable that the error did not contribute to the verdict.”
• “The test for determining nonconstitutional harmless error is whether it is highly probable that the error did not contribute to the verdict.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• sufficient evidence of malice murder and arson where two victims were found in a burning house stabbed to death, the house fire had more than one point of origin, and the evidence showed that the defendant had been inside the house and was romantically obsessed with one of the victims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pierce v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-01· cited 26×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-28· cited 13×
• Boone v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10· cited 5×
• Kingdom v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-04-08· cited 5×
• Kennebrew v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-09-19· cited 4×
• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-30
• Calhoun v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-16

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-02· cited 159×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-04-15· cited 34×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 27×
• Perez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 15×
• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-05-18· cited 9×