Parks v. State

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• holding that the evidence was sufficient to support a felony murder conviction as a party to the crime based on “evidence of [the defendant’s] presence at the scene, his companionship with other members of [a gang], and his actions during and after the crimes”
• “[C]riminal 7 intent may be inferred from presence, companionship, and conduct before, during, and after the offense.”
• Evidence that the defendant and other gang members drove through a neighborhood shouting the gang’s name and got out of their cars “trying to fight” the residents authorized the jury to find a violation of OCGA § 16-15-4 (a).
• “mere presence at the scene of a crime is not sufficient evidence to convict one of being a party to a crime, criminal intent may be inferred from presence, companionship, and conduct before, during, and after the offense”
• “While mere presence at the scene of a crime is not sufficient evidence to convict one of being a party to a crime, criminal intent may be inferred from presence, companionship, and conduct before, during, and after the offense.” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Frazier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-06· cited 33×
• Boyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 32×
• Moon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 26×
• McIntyre v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 15×
• Poole v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 14×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 12×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-22· cited 12×
• Fortson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 8×
• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-15· cited 5×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-08· cited 1×
• Abel De La Cruz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-03-16
• Jenna Marie Garland v. State of Georgia
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-11-08
• Parks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-20
• Savion Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-08-30
• Jason Lee Durham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-08-30
• Janorris Spears v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-02-06

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• People v. Loeun
  California Court of Appeal· 1997-12-22· cited 261×
• Cowart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 102×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-01-12· cited 83×
• Veal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-21· cited 57×
• Livingston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-07-14· cited 55×
• Burney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-17· cited 54×
• Sifuentes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-11· cited 53×
• Velazquez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-08· cited 41×
• Cobb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-03-17· cited 41×
• Edge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-07-11· cited 36×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-22· cited 35×
• McGRUDER v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-07· cited 35×
• Navarrete v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 33×
• Welbon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-01· cited 31×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-01-19· cited 30×
• Downey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 19×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-18· cited 19×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-08· cited 9×
• Lang v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-02-21· cited 4×