Beck v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “when a victim is attacked by a defendant and the victim attempts to defend himself or end the altercation, the victim’s actions in doing so cannot provide the serious provocation necessary to justify a charge on voluntary manslaughter”
• victim’s actions in defending self to end defendant’s attack is not serious provocation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ledford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-25· cited 99×
• Paslay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-29· cited 14×
• Fleming v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-04-30· cited 3×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Horton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-08· cited 79×
• Mallory v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-06-01· cited 48×
• Turpin v. Christenson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-16· cited 37×
• Beam v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-13· cited 32×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-05-17· cited 27×
• Lewandowski v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-14· cited 20×
• Carmichael v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-01-31· cited 2×