Foster 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 statements in death certificate that the deceased was “beaten in altercation” and that the “immediate cause of death [was] ‘homicide’” were merely cumulative of other evidence and thus the trial court’s error in allowing the death certificate in the jury room was harmless
• omitting the phrase “when used offensively” and other statutory language, but charging appellant with causing the victim’s death “ ‘by striking and beating with accused’s hands and fists and kicking said [victim] with accused’s shoe-clad feet’”
• conclusions in death certificate supported by other evidence were cumulative and harmless

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-05-28· cited 94×
• Speed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 49×
• Borders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-08· cited 37×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-30· cited 24×
• LIZANA v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 7×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-10· cited 6×
• Tillery v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-19· cited 1×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• McCrary v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-04-17· cited 69×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-10-16· cited 19×
• Cooper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-17· cited 17×
• Middlebrooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-01-09· cited 14×
• Fraley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-07-16· cited 12×