Cain v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• to be entitled to severance, defendant must demonstrate harm that might be avoided by separate trials
• “[Because] the grant or denial of a motion to sever is left to the discretion of the trial court, its ruling will be overturned only for an abuse of discretion.”
• where statute clearly provides that a jointly tried defendant may testify for the other or on behalf of the state, defendant will not be heard to complain merely because he does not like his co-defendants’ testimony
• where statute clearly provides that a jointly tried defendant may testify for the other defendant or on behalf of the state, defendant cannot be heard to complain merely because he does not like his co-defendants’ testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

208 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Chancey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-11-13· cited 154×
• Satterfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-01-14· cited 76×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-11-24· cited 76×
• Orkin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-01-27· cited 75×
• Kesler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-05-18· cited 71×
• Owens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-06-30· cited 71×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 68×
• Reaves v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-09-27· cited 66×
• Felder v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-08· cited 63×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-04-09· cited 59×
• Dennard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 55×
• Graham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-06-20· cited 54×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-01-04· cited 53×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-05-20· cited 53×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-02-09· cited 47×
• Isaac v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-05· cited 44×
• Stevens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-03-17· cited 44×
• Linares v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-05-28· cited 43×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-01-14· cited 43×
• Burgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-09-22· cited 41×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mathis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-11-09· cited 70×
• Merrill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1974-01-07· cited 37×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1973-09-12· cited 9×
• Grant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1974-05-09· cited 3×