Morris 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 there was sufficient evidence of malice aforethought when, “[p]rior to the shooting, [the defendant] acquired a gun and then 20 headed to the house” where the victim was located and shot him “numerous times . . . even after he had already fallen to the ground”
• reiterating that “questions about the existence of justification are for the jury to resolve. The jury is free to reject any evidence in support of a justification defense and to accept the evidence that the [killing] was not done in self-defense”
• reiterating that “questions about the existence of justification are for the jury to resolve. The jury is free to reject any evidence in support of a justification defense and to accept the evidence that the shooting was not done in self-defense”
• declining to characterize offhand comments made during the state’s case-in-chief to be evidence about a defendant’s general reputation for good character
• reiterating that “questions about the existence of justification are for the jury to resolve. The jury is free to reject any evidence in support of a justification defense and to accept the evidence that the shooting was not done in self-defense” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “To authorize a requested jury instruction, there need only be slight evidence supporting the theory of the charge.” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Horton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-05· cited 24×
• Blount v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-07· cited 14×
• SOUTHEASTERN PAIN SPECIALISTS, P.C. v. BROWN (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 13×
• Se. Pain Specialists, P.C. v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 12×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-08· cited 8×
• Isaac v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-14· cited 8×
• Orr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-08-24· cited 4×
• Harper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-19
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-08-12
• Cj Ward v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-09-12
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10
• CLARK v. LEIGH (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-16

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 135×
• Anthony v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-04-04· cited 70×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-04-19· cited 63×
• Hamm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-17· cited 62×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 35×
• Allaben v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-20· cited 30×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-09-14· cited 21×
• Duvall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-02-07· cited 16×
• Mullins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-03· cited 9×