Hicks v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• movement of child that occurred when defendant pulled the child toward him constituted asportation under OCGA § 16-6-5 (a)
• verbal act of asking the victim to spread her legs was sufficient to support conviction for child molestation
• victim’s testimony that defendant “kept on trying to pull [her] towards him” satisfied asportation element
• the act required by child molestation statute “may be merely verbal”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Carolina v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-11-08· cited 28×
• Leaptrot v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-03-30· cited 22×
• Mikell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-10-04· cited 21×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-05· cited 11×
• Henderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-04-07· cited 8×
• Harris v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-23· cited 8×
• Tudor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-19· cited 8×
• Wyley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-01-29· cited 7×
• Cavender v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-20· cited 4×
• Harris v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-10-09· cited 2×
• Russell Calvin McCurdy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-30
• Ryan Reid v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-11-08
• Stogisavlijevic v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-01-27
• Robert Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-05
• James Tudor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-19
• Kevin Ray Cavender v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-20
• Deanta Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-10-14

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Leon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-24· cited 21×
• Bowman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-07-25· cited 18×
• Bragg v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-04-27· cited 15×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-01-22· cited 14×
• Pratt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-09-17· cited 6×