Benson v. State

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• circumstantial evidence supporting murder conviction included attempted use of the victim's credit card at the defendant's business
• circumstantial evidence supporting murder conviction included attempted use of the victim’s credit card at the defendant’s business
• Appellant’s family members were improperly excluded from voir dire but because “[ajppellant... did not object to the closure at trial], he was] procedurally barred from raising the issue on appeal.”
• Appellant’s family members were improperly excluded from voir dire but because “[a]ppellant . . . did not object to the closure at trial[, he was] procedurally barred from raising the issue on appeal.”
• “corpus delicti is established by proof ‘that the person alleged in the indictment to have been killed is actually dead, and second, that the death was caused or accomplished by violence, or other direct criminal agency of some other human being’ ” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• closure of courtroom during jury voir dire

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-02· cited 44×
• Benton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 25×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 21×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-09-14· cited 21×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 17×
• Thrift v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-07· cited 17×
• Mohamed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 16×
• Alexander v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-03-15· cited 14×
• Cook v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-08-08· cited 13×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-20· cited 13×
• O'neal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-16· cited 12×
• McKinney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-27· cited 10×
• Whatley v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-09-14· cited 8×
• Freeman v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-31· cited 4×
• Goodrum v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-11· cited 3×
• People v. Cain
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2021-12-13· cited 2×
• BRIGHTER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC v. BCF-EF, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-10-02

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 177×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-06· cited 147×
• Cowart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 102×
• Reid v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-02-08· cited 64×
• State v. Abernathy
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-05· cited 57×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-04· cited 56×
• Hinton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-06-12· cited 53×
• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-05· cited 51×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-18· cited 38×
• Pennie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 13×