DELEON v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that reckless conduct merges into aggravated battery, although the latter requires proof of malice
• finding no error where witnesses “were not asked and did not testify as to whether they believed appellant acted in self-defense and so they did not express an opinion on the ultimate issue of fact”
• where jury “instructed on the law of justification and self-defense, any failure to instruct the jury on the lack of a duty to retreat does not require reversal”
• where jury “instructed on the law of justification and self-defense, any failure to instruct the jury on the lack of a duty to retreat does not require reversal”
• “Inasmuch as the evidence showed appellant threw the murder weapon away thereby tampering with evidence in his own case and not that of another, he could not be convicted of a felony, but only convicted of a misdemeanor.”
• “Inasmuch as the evidence showed appellant threw the murder weapon away thereby tampering with evidence in his own case and not that of another, he could not be convicted of a felony, but only convicted of a misdemeanor.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-06· cited 147×
• Ballard v. State v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 52×
• Terry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 36×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-25· cited 33×
• Allaben v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-25· cited 31×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-23· cited 26×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-02· cited 25×
• Durden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-03· cited 23×
• Westbrook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-05-07· cited 19×
• Currier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-01-21· cited 19×
• Middleton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-01· cited 18×
• Haynes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-11· cited 1×
• George Haynes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-11
• John C. Huber v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-06-27

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Drinkard v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-16· cited 350×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 85×
• Loadholt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 38×
• Patel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-27· cited 34×
• Higginbotham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 31×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1914-11-11· cited 22×
• Edmonds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-09-16· cited 18×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-03-28· cited 16×
• Collins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-01-05· cited 15×