Mays v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “A criminal statute must be construed strictly against criminal liability and, if it is susceptible to more than one reasonable interpretation, the interpretation most favorable to the party facing criminal liability must be adopted.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-02-16

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bowers v. Fulton County
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1966-01-07· cited 126×
• Peterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 55×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-17· cited 54×
• Ward v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-06-21· cited 29×
• Hughes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-31· cited 16×
• Pilcher v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-04-02· cited 13×
• Dickey v. Clipper Petroleum, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-06-23· cited 11×
• Carter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-05-20· cited 9×
• Prophitt v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-22· cited 8×
• Cobb v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-03-12· cited 5×
• Roberson v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-02-18· cited 4×
• Fulton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-09-08· cited 3×