Legal Opinion

Hooks v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided April 30, 2024No. S24A0037PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

318 Ga. 850

FINAL COPY S24A0037. HOOKS v. THE STATE. PINSON, Justice. Appellant Kiervon Armani Hooks was convicted of felony mur- der and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, both arising from the shooting death of Brandon Ray Foster.1 On appeal, Hooks contends the evidence was not sufficient to sustain his convictions because no physical evidence or eyewitness testi- mony linked him to the crime scene and the State did not present 1 Foster was shot in the late hours of September 26, 2017, and died early the next morning. On December 18, 2017, a grand jury returned an…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Graves v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2019
  3. Graves v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2019
  4. Perkins v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2022
  5. Johnson v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2015

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