Boyd v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding evidence was sufficient to convict the defendant of criminal attempt to commit robbery where he threatened to stab the victims and told them “not to move” and that “this store is fixing to be robbed”
• charge upheld against contention it usurped jury’s role in assessing defendant’s interest in the case and thus his credibility
• trial court had no obligation to instruct the jury on justification because there was no evidence of any imminent threat of harm
• photograph of victim and family relevant to establish victim’s identity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Faust v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 54×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-01-12· cited 40×
• Major v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-15· cited 31×
• Ragan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-17· cited 30×
• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 5×
• Haynes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 4×
• Morgan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 4×
• Adcock v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-08-23· cited 4×
• Monique Huia Sullivan v. The State of Wyoming
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2025-01-08· cited 4×
• Bennett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-20· cited 1×
• Lofton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-01
• John Adcock v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-08-23
• FLAKES v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-02-03
• Tabb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-02

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Mincey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-07-07· cited 110×
• Ledford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-21· cited 108×
• Tarvestad v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-10-18· cited 103×
• Larry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-02-19· cited 43×
• Kennedy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-02-16· cited 29×
• Glenn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-04-26· cited 17×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-30· cited 17×
• Sizemore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-01-05· cited 11×
• Hardy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-11-19· cited 10×
• Cornell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-10-20· cited 8×
• Heyward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-13· cited 5×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-07· cited 2×