Mathews 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 jury was authorized to conclude that the appellant was guilty of felony 11 murder based on aggravated assault, even though the evidence presented at trial did not establish whether he or his co-defendant shot the murder victim, because they shared a common criminal intent
• stating that “[c]riminal 6 intent is a question for the jury, and it may be inferred from that person’s conduct before, during, and after the commission of the crime” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• explaining that the evidence can be sufficient as a matter of constitutional due process to support a defendant’s felony murder conviction even when the defendant was not the one who fired the fatal shot
• rejecting the appellant’s claim that counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to move for a directed verdict because there was sufficient evidence to support his convictions
• “[E]ven assuming that [the defendant] did not fire the shot that killed [the victim] or shoot at [the second victim], the trial evidence shows that [the defendant] shared [the co-defendant’s] criminal intent to shoot at the victims because [the defendant] committed the same acts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-01-18· cited 52×
• Moulder v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-08-21· cited 13×
• Maynor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 9×
• Howard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-19· cited 8×
• McCullum v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-05· cited 7×
• Bowman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 6×
• Huber v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-30· cited 6×
• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-15· cited 5×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-01-18· cited 4×
• Stroud v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-16· cited 4×
• CHAPMAN v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-07-01

Cites

32 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Mallory v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 221×
• Barnes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 180×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-02· cited 159×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 122×
• State v. Orr
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-06· cited 84×
• Brockman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 71×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-25· cited 67×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 60×
• Sharpe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-30· cited 56×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-09· cited 55×
• Landers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-26· cited 51×
• Mims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 46×
• Lebis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 35×
• Rowland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-03· cited 35×
• Dugger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-05-11· cited 30×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-06· cited 30×