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.

• “It is not error to refuse a justification charge where there is no evidence to support it.”
• “[A]ffirmative defenses require[ ] that the defendant admit the crime before he can raise such defense.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “To authorize a requested jury instruction, there need only be slight evidence supporting the theory of the charge.”
• “To authorize a requested jury instruction, there need only be slight evidence supporting the theory of the charge”
• court properly refused to give self-defense instruction where \no construction of the evidence would support a finding\ that defendant shot victim in defense of another
• “To authorize a requested jury instruction, there need only be slight evidence supporting the theory of the charge.” (Citation omitted.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-07· cited 73×
• Hammond v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-04-26· cited 72×
• Hamm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-17· cited 62×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 59×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 52×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 52×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-07· cited 50×
• McClure v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 48×
• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 45×
• Flournoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-10· cited 39×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-25· cited 33×
• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 32×
• Cotton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 30×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 29×
• Hornbuckle v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-27· cited 29×
• Colzie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-04-18· cited 27×
• Funes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-03· cited 27×
• Fisher v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-08· cited 25×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-10-05· cited 17×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 107×
• Worthem v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-01-11· cited 35×
• Sampson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-04· cited 29×
• Brower v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-02· cited 24×
• Sparks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 19×
• Alexis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-22· cited 18×
• Broussard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-10· cited 17×
• Lightning v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-26· cited 17×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-25· cited 15×
• Brennon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-09-06· cited 13×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-06-23· cited 10×
• Nichols v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-04-29· cited 10×
• Major v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-07-13· cited 3×