Earnest v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• there is no requirement that a house be continuously occupied to be a dwelling; it is sufficient that it is occasionally occupied for residential purposes and any such lawful occupant has a superior right as against burglars
• sufficient evidence of burglary even though house vacant and no one resided there at time of entry, noting that there is no requirement in the law that a house be continuously occupied in order to be a dwelling

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Perkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 35×
• Sanders v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-09-15· cited 18×
• Weeks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-06-29· cited 17×
• Giles v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-04-08· cited 5×
• Paul v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-06· cited 5×
• Wood v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-08-18· cited 2×
• Jernerick Bernard Paul v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-06

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Hess v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1974-05-15· cited 17×
• McCloud v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-08-20· cited 8×
• Tibbs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-12-03· cited 5×
• Toth v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-05-17· cited 5×