Davis v. State

How courts have described this case

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• noting that words alone may be sufficient where victim, who is married to accused, recounts her adultery and taunts the accused with descriptions of her adulterous conduct
• indicating that words alone maybe sufficient to support voluntary manslaughter instruction where victim, who was married to accused, recounted her adultery and taunted the accused with descriptions of her adulterous conduct
• indicating that words alone may be sufficient to support voluntary manslaughter instruction where victim, who was married 9 to accused, recounted her adultery and taunted the accused with descriptions of her adulterous conduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-22· cited 53×
• Ware v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-18· cited 15×
• Burke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 14×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-03· cited 8×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-29· cited 5×
• Rigsby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-03· cited 4×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Strickland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-24· cited 52×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-06-29· cited 45×
• MacK v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-01· cited 20×
• Elrod v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-05-13· cited 17×