Chastain v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing conviction for tampering with the evidence where any inferences drawn from evidence at trial as to how the knife reached the victim’s hand were mere speculation
• reversing conviction for tampering with the evidence where any inferences drawn from evidence at trial as to how the knife reached the victim’s hand were mere speculation
• tampering conviction supported by evidence that defendant hid murder weapon under mattress
• tampering conviction supported by evidence that defendant hid murder weapon under mattress
• no exception necessary for the prosecutor who signed the indictment bringing the charges as they are allowed to remain in courtroom and testify after other witnesses
• in the absence of evidence that the defendant placed a knife in the hand of the victim, defendant could not be convicted of tampering with evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

25 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×
• Raulerson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-10-06· cited 93×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-09-11· cited 35×
• Ganas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-26· cited 34×
• Dean v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-11-03· cited 16×
• Bruce v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-02-07· cited 16×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-04-15· cited 14×
• Fletcher v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-17· cited 11×
• Starks v. Robinson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-10-14· cited 11×
• Martinez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-01-31· cited 9×
• Peters v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-25· cited 9×
• Burns v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-09-04· cited 8×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-05-27· cited 7×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-09-18· cited 6×
• Wipfel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-15· cited 6×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-09-05· cited 5×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-06-11· cited 5×
• Cooper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-10-04· cited 5×
• Ross v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-01-22· cited 4×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-09-05· cited 3×

Cites

19 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×
• Baxter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-07-03· cited 99×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-01-24· cited 89×
• Roach v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1966-02-02· cited 81×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1965-05-06· cited 67×
• Stack v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-03-18· cited 62×
• High v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-02-24· cited 56×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-10· cited 44×
• Raines v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-04-21· cited 36×
• Swain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1921-04-13· cited 26×
• Gainey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1974-10-10· cited 18×
• Tift v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1974-12-04· cited 18×
• Hudgins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1913-09-23· cited 12×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-03-13· cited 10×
• Pennamon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1964-10-14· cited 8×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-11-05· cited 6×
• Maloof v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-03-07· cited 5×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-30· cited 3×