Hill v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that because the trial court chose to sentence the appellant for felony murder based on aggravated assault rather than felony murder based on armed robbery, the court correctly sentenced him on the armed robbery count
• evidence was sufficient to sustain felony murder conviction where defendant participated in armed robbery targeting restaurant worker and was willingly present when worker was killed
• trial court did not err by merging predicate aggravated assault count into felony murder count for which the defendant was sentenced, and then entering separate sentence on armed robbery count
• conviction upheld where evidence showed that defendant was willingly present when victim was killed by accomplice in alley and that defendant later bragged about his participation in crime
• trial court did not err by merging predicate aggravated assault count into felony murder count for which the defendant was sentenced, and then entering separate sentence on armed robbery count

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Tolbert v. Toole
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 171×
• Powell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 75×
• Ellis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 55×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-17· cited 54×
• Stewart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12· cited 32×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 24×
• Horne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-03-19· cited 20×
• Ratana v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-05-12· cited 16×
• State v. Cash
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 15×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-02· cited 14×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-10-27· cited 11×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-07· cited 11×
• Hinton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 11×
• Gresham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-05-04· cited 5×
• Cornette v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-02-10· cited 5×
• Mondy v. Magnolia Advanced Materials, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-03-08· cited 2×
• Graceland Care Center of New Albany, LLC v. Teresa Hamlet
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2017-11-02
• Marshae Ann Onyeka v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-02-26
• Michael O. Mondy v. Magnolia Advanced Materials Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-03-08

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-09-09· cited 98×
• State v. Marlowe
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-17· cited 83×
• Eckman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-11· cited 62×
• Titelman v. Stedman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-12-01· cited 54×
• McClellan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-11· cited 43×
• State v. Ray
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-06-05· cited 33×
• Daniel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-05-05· cited 18×
• Hunt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-11-21· cited 16×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-11· cited 8×
• Harden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-07· cited 7×