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.

• holding that “evidence of an argument over money that turned violent is not sufficient to show mutual combat” (punctuation omitted)
• holding that aggravated assault merged into malice murder where “there [wa]s no evidence of an interval separating the infliction of the victim’s non-fatal wounds from the infliction of the wounds that killed her”
• “evidence of an argument over money that turned violent is not sufficient to show mutual combat”
• no error in failing to charge on mutual combat notwithstanding evidence of scratches and blood on defendant and his statement that victim threw a bottle at him
• no error when jury charge, as a whole, correctly informed jury it could find defendant guilty of malice murder or voluntary manslaughter
• “There is no evidence here that Johnson and the victim mutually agreed to fight, and evidence of an argument over money that turned violent is not sufficient to show mutual combat.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 59×
• Dozier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-03· cited 29×
• Heade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 25×
• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-28· cited 24×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-11-04· cited 21×
• Barnes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 12×
• Moody v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-16· cited 9×
• Douglas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10· cited 6×
• Mayo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-14· cited 4×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 3×
• Ramirez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 2×
• Polke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-25· cited 2×
• Margaret Aeger v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-09-18
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-01-05
• Peavy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-05-05

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• Drinkard v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-16· cited 350×
• Edge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-04· cited 236×
• Woodard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 119×
• Southall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-01-23· cited 68×
• Grissom v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-01-20· cited 57×
• Stinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-03-28· cited 50×
• McGill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-04-19· cited 49×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 41×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 40×
• Carruth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-09· cited 38×
• Pulley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-07-02· cited 26×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-16· cited 25×
• Reddings v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-04· cited 19×
• Cloud v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-29· cited 18×
• Schutt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 17×
• McDonald v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-02· cited 14×