HOPWOOD v. STATE

S19A1436.

835 S.E.2d 627 (2019)

HOPWOOD v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: November 4, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Mitchell Harrison , Oconee Circuit Public Defender Oconee Circuit, 5120 Norman Street, Eastman, Georgia 31023, for Appellant.

Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy Attorney General, Paula Khristian Smith , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Michael Alexander Oldham , Assistant Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, Timothy Grady Vaughn , District Attorney, Keely Kight Pitts , A.D.A., Oconee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, P.O. Box 1027, Eastman, Georgia 31023, for Appellee.


Carla Rae Hopwood was tried by a Telfair County jury and convicted of murder in connection with the fatal shooting of her longtime boyfriend, Ernest Bray. Hopwood appeals, contending that the evidence is legally insufficient to sustain her conviction and that the trial court erred when it admitted a statement that she gave to...

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