Shockley 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 evidence was sufficient to support murder conviction where defendant was present for the shooting, fled the scene with co-indictee, and later fled the jurisdiction
• explaining that Georgia courts have “often held that a jury is authorized to find a defendant guilty as a party to a crime from evidence of the defendant’s presence, companionship, and conduct before and after a crime”
• even without direct evidence linking appellant to the shooting, circumstantial evidence viewed in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdict was sufficient to support conviction for malice murder
• deficient performance not established where lawyer failed to call defendant’s mother as an alibi witness because mother was ambiguous and uncertain about time frames and jury was unlikely to give her testimony much credit because of her relationship with the defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Moss v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 77×
• Dority v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 33×
• United States v. Roosevelt Coats, III
  Eleventh Circuit· 2021-08-12· cited 32×
• Hornbuckle v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-27· cited 29×
• Scoggins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 29×
• State v. Cash
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 15×
• Neely v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-09-13· cited 9×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-19· cited 2×
• Studivant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-24
• Demarkius Dority v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-20
• Justin Hollis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-03-30

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Powell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 75×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-16· cited 42×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-11-25· cited 40×
• Slaton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-03· cited 25×
• Gill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 22×
• Powell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-15· cited 19×
• Aikens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 15×
• Ruffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 11×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-23· cited 8×