Benefield v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that although “[fjailure to give a charge on a defendant’s sole defense is error regardless of whether the defendant requested a charge on the defense,” the trial court did not err in failing to charge on self-defense because the defendant denied that he stabbed the victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rowland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-08-08· cited 18×
• Curtis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-08· cited 10×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-03-17· cited 9×
• McMurtry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-09-15· cited 8×
• Stone v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-09· cited 7×
• Palmer v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-02-12· cited 4×
• Jerome McMurtry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-09-15

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bullock v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-11-13· cited 22×
• Henderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-02-25· cited 21×
• Arnold v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-07-02· cited 15×
• Lamb v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-06-25· cited 12×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-11-05· cited 3×