Garner 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 there was no evidence of justification where, among other things, there was no evidence that the victim was reaching for a weapon and the defendant shot the victim after the defendant became angry while speaking with the victim
• slight evidence is sufficient to authorize the giving of a requested jury instruction
• trial court did not err by refusing to charge on self-defense where there was no evidence that appellant was in fear of suffering harm during the encounter with the victim or that the victim was reaching for a weapon
• trial court did not err by refusing to charge on self-defense where there was no evidence that appellant was in fear of suffering harm during the encounter with the victim or that the victim was reaching for a weapon

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• McClure v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 48×
• Stafford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-11-02· cited 28×
• STEPP-McCOMMONS v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 25×
• Rammage v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-27· cited 5×
• Satterfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-28· cited 2×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-20· cited 2×
• Cattrina Crider v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-07-13
• Bristol Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-02-11
• State v. Leverette
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-20
• Tucker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18

Cites

5 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· 2010-04-19· cited 63×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 59×
• Broussard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-10· cited 17×
• Brunson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-17· cited 14×