Chase v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining circumstances in which failure to give a jury instruction is harmful as a matter of law
• noting “[w]hile there was no question that appellant fired a gun through the floor, striking his wife in the room below in the top of her head, there was no evidence from which the jury could find the victim had been placed in reasonable apprehension of immediately receiving a violent injury.”
• reversal required where jury instructions failed to provide the jury with the proper guidelines for determining guilt or innocence of the charged offense
• reversal required where jury instructions failed to provide the jury with the proper guidelines for determining guilt or innocence of the charged offense
• The “failure to inform the jury of an essential element of the crime charged is reversible error because the jury is left without appropriate guidelines for reaching its verdict.”
• “It is not necessary that an indictment charging a defendant with aggravated assault specify the manner in which the simple assault was committed, but it must set forth the aggravating aspect.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Brodes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-06-16· cited 139×
• Stanbury v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 57×
• Roper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-04-24· cited 45×
• State v. Wyatt
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-02· cited 32×
• King v. Waters
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-28· cited 31×
• Guyse v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 31×
• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-25· cited 25×
• Wetzel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-02· cited 23×
• Coney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-19· cited 20×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-07· cited 19×
• Giddens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-11-14· cited 17×
• Leftwich v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-07· cited 17×
• Holloman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-03· cited 16×
• Issa v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-01-31· cited 15×
• Atkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 14×
• Cantera v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-06-27· cited 11×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-24· cited 11×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 10×
• Burley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-31· cited 10×
• Torres v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-02· cited 8×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• State v. Stonaker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-01-08· cited 349×
• Dunagan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-07-16· cited 91×
• Spear v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-01-22· cited 89×
• Tharpe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-03-17· cited 88×
• Simpson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-17· cited 74×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-23· cited 56×
• Sedlak v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-10-15· cited 37×
• Holmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-08· cited 37×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-29· cited 34×
• Tiller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-28· cited 23×
• Langston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-03-09· cited 21×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-02-24· cited 20×
• Ancrum v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-11-30· cited 16×
• Merrell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-07-08· cited 16×
• Brinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-01· cited 16×
• State v. Tate
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-07-14· cited 8×