Muckle v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “although [the defendant] offered testimony that conflicted with the State’s version of events, it was the role of the jury[ ] ... to assess the credibility of the witnesses and decide whose testimony to accept or reject.”
• attempting to discard evidence can serve as circumstantial evidence of guilt
• attempting to discard evidence can serve as circumstantial evidence of guilt
• the continued use of force after the “imminent danger justifying self-defense ha[s] passed” does not qualify as self-defense. (Citation and 7 punctuation omitted.)
• the continued use of force after the “imminent danger justifying self-defense has passed” does not qualify as self-defense
• eyewitness testimony was sufficient by itself to sustain conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Simpson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 54×
• Fleming v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-10-02· cited 12×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-08· cited 9×
• Kegler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-08-15· cited 8×
• Willis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-15· cited 7×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-13· cited 6×
• GARDHIGH v. THE STATE (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-16· cited 6×
• Tremblay v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-10-09· cited 3×
• Boutier v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-09-10· cited 1×
• Tucker Hamlette v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-02-14
• Margaret Aeger v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-09-18
• Coleman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-01-14
• Early Willis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-15
• Clarence Kegler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-08-15
• John Nolan Fleming v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-10-02
• Jemal David Coleman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-01-14

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Drinkard v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-16· cited 350×
• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 103×
• Mikell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-15· cited 34×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-05· cited 32×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-10-04· cited 27×
• Buice v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-08-29· cited 16×
• Verdree v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-08-10· cited 14×
• Herrera v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-10-13· cited 13×
• Fortune v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-06-03· cited 11×
• McGuire v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-05-11· cited 10×
• Burchett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-01-12· cited 10×
• McKee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-07-13· cited 10×
• McDonald v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-05-14· cited 8×
• Hayles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-09-19· cited 8×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-10-06· cited 6×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-05-29· cited 5×
• Zachery v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-05-22· cited 5×
• Richards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-12-10· cited 3×
• Young v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-09-28· cited 2×