Drane 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 murder and aggravated battery were independent acts and those convictions did not merge where Drane’s accomplice fatally shot the victim and moments later either Drane or the accomplice slashed the victim’s throat
• aggravated battery does not merge where act resulting in aggravated battery was independent of the act causing death
• “admissions which are otherwise competent and admissible are not to be excluded simply because the admissions were made after the taking of a lie detector test”
• Evidence that the defendant and another man picked up the victim together, concealed evidence, and disposed of the body was sufficient to support an inference of an understanding between the men to murder the victim.
• aggravated battery did not merge with malice murder where victim’s throat was slashed at least six times after she was shot in the head and a rational trier of fact could have found defendant guilty of aggravated battery independent of the act causing the victim’s death

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Waldrip v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 109×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-10-07· cited 99×
• Klinect v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-07-06· cited 77×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 73×
• Wayne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-02· cited 67×
• Lowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-12-27· cited 62×
• State v. Wood
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1998-10-09· cited 60×
• Fulton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-07· cited 59×
• Howard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-07· cited 58×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-01-21· cited 56×
• State v. Broberg
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-06-11· cited 52×
• Garcia v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-04· cited 37×
• Norris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-01-22· cited 29×
• Slaughter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 29×
• Drane v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 27×
• Sorrells v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-10-07· cited 25×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 24×
• Shepard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-21· cited 20×
• Drane v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-25· cited 19×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-09-19· cited 18×

Cites

25 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Chambers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 5,756×
• JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB
  Supreme Court· 1994-04-19· cited 1,335×
• Green v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-29· cited 672×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-04-25· cited 240×
• Hance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-06-24· cited 158×
• State v. Chambers
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-10-18· cited 150×
• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-30· cited 136×
• Conklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-27· cited 105×
• Higgs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-01-15· cited 85×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1972-10-05· cited 67×
• Romine v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-06-30· cited 67×
• Stack v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-03-18· cited 62×
• Montes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-10-22· cited 60×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-01-04· cited 53×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-03-15· cited 48×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-11-04· cited 33×
• O'TOOLE v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-10-26· cited 31×
• Crosby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-07-16· cited 29×