Brunson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the defendant was not entitled to a self-defense charge where the record showed that the victim initiated a fight only after the defendant had threatened him with a revolver
• defendant not entitled to self-defense charge where victim initiated struggle because defendant threatened him with a firearm
• no justification charge warranted where evidence showed that unarmed victim initiated struggle with appellant only after appellant threatened victim with a gun
• “Aperson is not justified in using force when he is the aggressor or provokes the use of force against himself.”
• “To authorize a jury instruction there need only be slight evidence supporting the theory of the charge at trial.”
• defendant not entitled to self-defense charge where victim initiated struggle because defendant threatened him with a firearm

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 32×
• Garner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-04· cited 10×
• Oliver v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-10-29· cited 9×
• Hudson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-02-05· cited 5×
• Powers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-15· cited 4×
• Kinlaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 4×
• Dunn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-03· cited 2×
• Cattrina Crider v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-07-13
• Marreese Hudson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-02-05
• Charles Dunn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-03
• Darius Dionne Oliver v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-10-29

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Kilpatrick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-12-13· cited 59×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-07-01· cited 53×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-13· cited 20×
• Edmonds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-09-16· cited 18×
• Alexis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-22· cited 18×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-03-19· cited 15×
• McNeal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 11×