Johnson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing felony murder conviction predicated on cruelty to children where there was insufficient evidence to show essential elements of cruelty to children
• convictions for felony murder cannot be sustained where there was no evidence that the defendant intentionally assisted in the abuse of the child
• convictions for felony murder cannot be sustained where there was no evidence that the defendant intentionally assisted in the abuse of the child
• evidence insufficient to convict child’s uncle of felony murder and cruelty to children where evidence did not exclude the reasonable hypothesis that the crime was entirely unknown to the uncle
• evidence insufficient to convict child's uncle of felony murder and cruelty to children where evidence did not exclude the reasonable hypothesis that the crime was entirely unknown to the uncle
• “[T]he law is clear that unless the State’s evidence excludes every reasonable hypothesis except that of [the defendant’s] guilt, it has failed to carry its burden to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Delacruz v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-03-13· cited 70×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-23· cited 42×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-10· cited 34×
• Glenn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-13· cited 30×
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 7×
• Wood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-26· cited 6×
• Chambers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-01-28· cited 4×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-06-14· cited 3×
• Edwards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-03-29· cited 2×
• Cortney Bell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-02-18
• Sidrick Raymone Melancon, Sr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-06-23

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-13· cited 64×
• Roker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-05-21· cited 41×
• Tanner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1925-10-14· cited 37×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-07-06· cited 22×
• Rozier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-09-08· cited 13×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-10-29· cited 5×