Dawkins v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that it is not possible to give a false name to a police officer in violation of OCGA § 16-10-25 (a misdemeanor) without also making a false statement in violation of OCGA § 16-10-20 (a felony)
• applying the rule of lenity because the same evidence supported a conviction under two statutes, one a felony and one a misdemeanor
• applying the rule of lenity because the same evidence supported a conviction under two statutes, one a felony and one a misdemeanor
• “[T]he essential requirement... is that both crimes could be proved with the same evidence.” (punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-24· cited 79×
• Gordon v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 25×
• McNair v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-25· cited 11×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-02-13· cited 9×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-11-15· cited 9×
• Gordon v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-05-06· cited 7×
• Tesler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-01-15· cited 6×
• Todd McNair v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-25
• Eddie Champion v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-10-31

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-03· cited 54×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-19· cited 38×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-04-13· cited 29×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-02-17· cited 23×
• Quaweay v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-07-27· cited 14×