Bethea v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• possession of rocks of cocaine, without more, was insufficient to support inference that defendant intended to distribute the cocaine
• evidence of possession of “half a cookie of crack cocaine” alone insufficient, even where officer observed defendant participating in what appeared to be a drug transaction prior to discovery of drugs
• evidence of possession of “half a cookie of crack cocaine” alone insufficient, even where officer observed defendant participating in what appeared to be a drug 5 transaction prior to discovery of drugs

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Helton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-01-12· cited 25×
• Guild v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-10-26· cited 17×
• Buckholts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-01-25· cited 14×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-06-16· cited 12×
• Hicks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-10-06· cited 10×
• Duque v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-09-04· cited 7×
• Greene v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-01-14· cited 6×
• Way v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-10-12· cited 4×
• Nixon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 4×
• Beard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-19· cited 3×
• Myers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-20· cited 2×
• Kelvin Beard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-19

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Gibbons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-03· cited 353×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-06-11· cited 39×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-04-10· cited 29×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-04-10· cited 22×
• James v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-10-05· cited 22×
• Sams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-10-09· cited 19×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-07-16· cited 10×
• In the Interest of D. S.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-01-12· cited 1×