Allaben v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that under Georgia law, “venue is a jurisdictional fact that the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt and can do so by direct or circumstantial evidence”
• holding that the evidence was sufficient to prove venue in DeKalb County where circumstantial evidence indicated that the victim was killed in her DeKalb County house, including the victim’s state of undress and a moving blanket found in the house that matched the blanket her body was wrapped in
• “Determining whether venue has been established is an issue soundly within the province of the jury.”
• addressing the question of sufficiency of the evidence of venue if no witness is directly questioned about the issue and listing the various pieces of evidence to support a jury’s determination thereof

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pauldo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 6×
• Guyton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 4×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-11-18
• Timothy Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-06-12

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Worthen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 55×
• Hinton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-06-12· cited 53×
• Raines v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 36×
• Pike v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 33×
• Allaben v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-25· cited 31×
• Allaben v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-20· cited 30×
• Bush v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-28· cited 19×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 19×
• Welbon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 15×
• Wynn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-01· cited 13×
• Sheffield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 12×
• Kellam v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-22· cited 12×
• Morrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-01-23· cited 11×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 9×
• Hernandez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 7×
• Dozier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 7×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 6×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 4×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 2×