Moore 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 the defendant’s murder conviction because the evidence presented at trial showed only “that he had a motive for the killing; that he was present during the killing; and that he fled thereafter,” and was thus not sufficient as a matter of due process
• insufficient evidence that appellant was a party to the crime of murder notwithstanding that he had motive
• some circumstantial evidence of motive, presence, and flight but no direct evidence that defendant was even present at time of murder
• evidence was insufficient where it was only circumstantial and showed merely that defendant had motive to kill victim, was present at scene of crime, and fled from scene
• some circumstantial evidence of motive, presence, and flight but no direct evidence that defendant was even present at time of murder
• In both Brown and Moore, the Supreme Court reversed the appellant’s murder conviction because the cir cumstantial evidence failed to show the requisite shared criminal intent.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Payne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 63×
• Ellis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 55×
• Walsh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-11· cited 39×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-02-15· cited 38×
• Bullard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-12-02· cited 35×
• FITTS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-01· cited 32×
• State v. Holmes
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-09· cited 30×
• Cochran v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-03-08· cited 29×
• Todd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-12-05· cited 24×
• Teasley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-01-24· cited 24×
• Ridgeway v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-06-02· cited 23×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-06-01· cited 16×
• State v. Cash
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 15×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-27· cited 11×
• Crenshaw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-07-02· cited 10×
• Benitez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-01-23· cited 10×
• Lowery v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-11-21· cited 10×
• James v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-25· cited 7×
• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-10-22· cited 7×
• Szorcsik v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-21· cited 7×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-04-25· cited 240×
• Blanchard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-04-08· cited 55×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-09-08· cited 29×
• O'NEAL v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-07· cited 24×
• Cobb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-10-05· cited 6×