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Gunter v. State

Citations

  • 256 S.E.2d 341
  • 243 Ga. 651
  • 1979 Ga. LEXIS 1020

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating in dicta that “it may be that conspiracy... is a lesser included offense in an indictment charging the commission of the crime” where the crime has not been completed
  • “if the crime has in fact been committed, the co-conspirators are guilty as parties to the commission of the crime,” not the separate crime of conspiracy
  • “it is clear that authentication by circumstantial evidence is uniformly recognized as permissible”
  • if the jury determines a conspiracy has not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, “ ‘it is then their duty not to consider the testimony of acts and declarations of the supposed co-conspirator which has been admitted’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Hill, Divisions, Bowles, Marshall

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

Cites

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Other cases named Gunter v. State

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