Walker v. State

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• holding trial court error, if any, in precluding defendant’s sister hearsay testimony that defendant told her after the shooting the victim tried to kill him, was harmless because the testimony was cumulative of defendant’s own testimony that he acted in self-defense
• any error in excluding evidence was harmless because such evidence was cumulative of other evidence presented as to appellant’s defense at trial
• where evidence of guilt is “overwhelming,” erroneous exclusion of evidence is harmless
• any error in excluding testimony that appellant said victim tried to kill him was cumulative and harmless because appellant testified that he acted in self-defense and responding officer testified that appellant claimed victim had shot him
• any error in excluding testimony of appellant’s sister that appellant said victim tried to kill him was cumulative and harmless because appellant testified that he acted in self-defense and responding officer testified that appellant 15 claimed victim had shot him

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Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Perkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 35×
• Lynn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-21· cited 23×
• Neuman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-03-15· cited 22×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-20· cited 14×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-28· cited 13×
• Rodrigues v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 7×
• Harper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 7×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10· cited 7×
• Morris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-11-12· cited 2×
• Ariana Murphy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-12-27
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-03

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Kirby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-09-24· cited 129×
• Robert G. Lamb v. Marvin Jernigan, Warden
  Eleventh Circuit· 1982-08-23· cited 125×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 107×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-22· cited 83×
• Parks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-30· cited 65×
• Roper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-04-24· cited 45×
• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 45×
• Nix v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-01-17· cited 35×
• United States v. Rodney Hosford
  Eleventh Circuit· 1986-02-19· cited 34×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-25· cited 33×
• State v. Hodges
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 21×
• Rickman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-18· cited 19×
• Rucker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-03· cited 9×