Legal Opinion

Kiel Jones v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided October 17, 2017No. A17A1053PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

McFadden, Presiding Judge.

*180 After a jury trial, Kiel Jones was convicted of rape, aggravated child molestation, and incest. Jones appeals, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence, the denial of an oral request for a pretrial competency evaluation, the effectiveness of his trial counsel, the appointment of a public defender to assist his visually-impaired defense counsel, purported bias by the trial court, the trial court's participation during voir dire, and the sentence imposed for incest. Finding no reversible error, we affirm.

1. Sufficiency of the evidence.

In reviewing the sufficiency…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Robinson v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2003
  2. Chancey v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1986
  3. Curry v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1985
  4. Brockman v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2013
  5. Hampton v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2014

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