Floyd v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “A defendant will not be allowed to induce an asserted error, sit silently hoping for an acquittal, and obtain a new trial when that tactic fails.”
• a proper instruction on recharge may correct an improper instruction given in the original charge to the jury, where the correct instruction given on recharge explains away the defect in the previous improper charge
• in light of Barron , a defendant's request for a charge on justification by reason of defense of property concerning his use of force against his wife to recover the checkbook she took from his truck should have been denied

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lemming v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-23· cited 24×
• Stover v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-08-04· cited 9×
• Britton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-12
• The State v. Morgan.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-01
• C. CULLEN SCOTT v. JERRY TURNER
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-05-05
• Matthew A. Fassnacht v. Eric Lee Moler
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-02-22

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Roulain v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-02-12· cited 66×
• Francis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-06· cited 60×
• McConnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-10-21· cited 18×
• Altman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-12-08· cited 18×
• Lane v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-03· cited 18×
• Barron v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-12-15· cited 6×