Francis v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that the defendant was guilty of armed robbery for a theft that occurred immediately after he had killed the victim
• finding no reversible error when the jury was instructed with an unauthorized charge on impeachment by conviction of a crime of moral turpitude when the charge at question “appears to be no more than a passing general reference,” and was “one of a number of stated methods of impeachment”
• finding no reversible error when the jury was instructed with an unauthorized charge on impeachment by conviction of a crime of moral turpitude when the charge at question “appears to be no more than a passing general reference],” and was “one of a number of stated methods of impeachment”
• conviction for armed robbery authorized where theft was completed after force was used against the victim
• conviction for armed robbery authorized when theft was completed after force was used against the victim regardless of whether the victim was dead
• criminal conviction “will not be reversed when it is highly probable that an erroneous jury instruction did not contribute to the verdict”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Batiste v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-05-16· cited 151×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 83×
• Metheny v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-07-24· cited 81×
• Hamm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-17· cited 62×
• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-27· cited 61×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 59×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-06-30· cited 46×
• Gordon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-05· cited 39×
• Childress v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-03-15· cited 37×
• State v. Allen
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-06-10· cited 36×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-10· cited 34×
• Hester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 34×
• Vergara v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 32×
• Reeves v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-08-10· cited 31×
• Stacey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-04-29· cited 30×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-10-28· cited 29×
• Wynn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-08-11· cited 29×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-10-19· cited 29×
• Benton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 25×
• Young v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-03-21· cited 24×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-06-18· cited 261×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-01-06· cited 169×
• Crowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-26· cited 133×
• Southern Railway Co. v. O'Bryan
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1903-12-10· cited 117×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-11· cited 44×
• Sultenfuss v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-11-23· cited 41×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-05-25· cited 38×
• State v. Byrd
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-04-09· cited 37×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-03-08· cited 32×
• Prince v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-05-06· cited 30×
• Nicholson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-10-02· cited 30×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-09-04· cited 11×
• Miles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-05-10· cited 8×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-01-27· cited 8×