Jackson 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 it “is not enough” to “alleg[e] that a statute has been violated,” and that an indictment was legally insufficient where it was “based upon several assumptions of fact not set forth in the indictment”
• holding that indictment was fatally defective and did not withstand a general demurrer where it alleged violation of a specified criminal code section but did not \set out all the elements of the offense\ or \allege all the facts necessary to establish\ a violation
• holding that indictment was fatally defective and did not withstand a general demurrer where it alleged violation of a specified criminal code section but did not “set out all the elements of the offense” or “allege all the facts necessary to establish” a violation
• explaining that an indictment that merely references or cites the statute that the defendant is accused of violating, without alleging “things that are essential elements of a violation of the statute” does not sufficiently allege the crime described in the statute
• noting that “the longstanding principle that an 24 indictment is void to the extent that it fails to allege all the essential elements of the crime or crimes charged . . . is founded upon the constitutional guaranty of due process” (citations and punctuation omitted)
• “The case of Relaford v. State[, 306 Ga. App. 549, 550, (702 SE2d 776) (2010

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 44×
• State v. Mondor
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-28· cited 33×
• Eubanks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-24· cited 24×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-06-27· cited 16×
• Strickland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-01-25· cited 11×
• POWELL v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-30· cited 7×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10· cited 6×
• BUDHANI v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-03-07· cited 5×
• Bennefield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-09-10· cited 3×
• SMITH v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-29· cited 3×
• State v. Steven Cerajewski
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-10-01· cited 2×
• MOORE v. WHITE, WARDEN
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-22· cited 1×
• JACKSON v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-01-11
• Antonio Strickland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-02-11
• Kristine Heath v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-03-21
• State v. Michelle Huffman
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-09-23
• John Thomas Woods v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-11-08
• Kevin Chad Hardy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-04-25
• State v. Marquavius Meadows
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-09-10
• State v. Rashad L. Simpson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-11-22

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Eubanks
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-07· cited 150×
• Smith v. Hardrick
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-12-04· cited 95×
• Palmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-09-24· cited 51×
• Stinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-03-28· cited 50×
• Henderson v. Hames
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-07-12· cited 44×
• Kimbrough v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 40×
• Borders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-08· cited 37×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 27×
• State v. Grube
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-03· cited 26×
• State v. Howell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-02-05· cited 23×
• Hilliard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1953-03-13· cited 17×
• Ponder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1970-05-22· cited 14×
• State v. Shabazz
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-03· cited 13×
• Dixson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-11-23· cited 11×
• Relaford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-10-22· cited 8×
• Hill v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 8×
• Rambo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1920-06-15· cited 8×
• The State v. Wright
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-13· cited 5×
• State v. King
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-02· cited 4×
• Jackson v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-02-18· cited 4×