Lawson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• variance between indictment which charged defendant with aggravated assault with the use of a knife, and proof, which showed he used a box cutter, was not fatal
• variance between indictment which charged defendant with aggravated assault with the use of a knife, and proof, which showed he used a box cutter, was not fatal
• “[n]ot all differences between an indictment and proof constitute fatal variances”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-04-11· cited 17×
• Fields v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-10-04· cited 10×
• Fletcher v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-20· cited 8×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-22· cited 7×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-10-13· cited 6×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-02-26· cited 3×
• Soloman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-10-28· cited 2×
• Holloway v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-26· cited 1×
• Lewis Alan Carlton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-07-13
• Kodzo Caleb Awui v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-03-26
• Israel Moses Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-22
• Christopher Fletcher v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-20
• Glenn Maxwell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-02-28

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Battles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-09-11· cited 34×
• Vaughn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-02-08· cited 21×
• Leggon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-05-03· cited 19×
• Stevenson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-03-21· cited 19×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-05-29· cited 18×
• Rowland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-08-08· cited 18×
• Baskin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-05-05· cited 15×
• Trammell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1937-01-14· cited 13×
• London v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-01-22· cited 8×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-08-09· cited 5×
• State Highway Department v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1968-02-09· cited 4×