Lewis v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the appellant’s “challenge to the aggravated assault conviction [wa]s moot because that count” had merged with the felony murder count
• holding that the evidence, including a positive DNA match, was sufficient despite the defendant’s hypothetical argument that he did not rape the victim
• tolling applies where “the State has not obtained sufficient information to establish probable cause to arrest a particular suspect”
• “The person-unknown exception applies if the [s]tate has not obtained sufficient information to establish probable cause to arrest a particular suspect.”
• evidence which included that vic- tim’s body was discovered partially undressed, had defensive wounds, and had defendant’s sperm in her vagina was sufficient to sustain his convictions for murder and rape, and authorized jury to reject his alternate hypothesis as unreasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• WILLIAMS v. HARVEY
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 36×
• Garrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-08-13· cited 11×
• McCullum v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-05· cited 7×
• Rivera v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 6×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-08-24· cited 4×
• Denny v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-06· cited 2×
• Armaster McEady v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-07-13
• State v. Marion Franklin Campbell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-02-16
• Alan Hutzel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-02
• State v. Calvin Hill
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-10-08
• State v. Rhonda Dee McClendon
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-01-20
• Derrick Gregory Bryant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-02-07
• Antonio Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-10-25
• Juan M. Luna-Galacia v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-08-16
• Durwin Logan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-03-12
• Ryan Alexander Duke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-03-12

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Harper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-06-02· cited 229×
• Long v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-10-04· cited 98×
• Whatley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-12-04· cited 92×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-06· cited 90×
• Durham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 76×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-08· cited 71×
• Heard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-09-17· cited 68×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-04-15· cited 34×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-01-23· cited 34×
• Andrews v. Wilbanks
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-30· cited 26×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-20· cited 25×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-09-10· cited 24×
• Harper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-18· cited 23×
• Whitaker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-05-29· cited 21×
• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 19×
• Hurst v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 17×
• Grant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 17×
• Daniels v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-16· cited 13×
• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-21· cited 12×