English v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• determining that “in a confession, the entire criminal act is confessed” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• distinguishing admissions, where “only one or more facts entering into the criminal act are admitted,” and 9 confessions, where “the entire criminal act is confessed,” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• a merely incriminating statement that admits to damaging circumstances but seeks to deny responsibility for the crime by putting forward exculpatory or legally justifying facts is not a confession requiring corroboration

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 53×
• Ash v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-11-02· cited 30×
• Horton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-05· cited 24×
• Clarke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-05-04· cited 19×
• Goodman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 16×
• Golden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-07· cited 14×
• Hood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 14×
• Hooper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-03-08· cited 9×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-31· cited 9×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-25· cited 8×
• Greene v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-06-21· cited 6×
• State v. Leverette
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 5×
• Deleon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-02-09· cited 2×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 2×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-30
• Moss v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-10-15
• Alberto Eddie Deleon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-02-09

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-04-04· cited 64×
• Hamm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-17· cited 62×
• Stanbury v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 57×
• Lowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-10-15· cited 25×
• Rashid v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-22· cited 18×