Person v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “As there is nothing other than [the defendant’s] presence in the room to connect him to the contraband, the evidence is not sufficient to support his conviction.”
• “As there is nothing other than [the defendant’s] presence in the room to connect him to the contraband, the evidence is not sufficient to support his conviction.”
• “[M]erely finding contraband on premises occupied by a defendant is not sufficient to support a conviction if it affirmatively appears from the evidence that persons other than the defendant had equal opportunity to commit the crime.” (punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Fears v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-12-01· cited 39×
• Speight v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-05-20· cited 11×
• Stewart v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-09· cited 4×
• Kayla Stewart v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-09

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1970-01-21· cited 58×
• Ivey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1970-10-22· cited 27×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-02-29· cited 19×
• McCann v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-01-30· cited 14×