Nelms v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reviewing for abuse of discretion court’s denial of motion for mistrial on Bruton grounds
• the admission of a non-testifying co-defendant’s statement that “they” went almost to Louisiana did not violate Bruton because that statement did not directly implicate the defendant
• “A charge on mutual combat is warranted only when the combatants are armed with deadly weapons and mutually agree to fight”
• “A charge on mutual combat is warranted only when the combatants are armed with deadly weapons and mutually agree to fight”
• evidence sufficient to support both defendants’ convictions for concealing a death where they both dragged body away from crime scene and covered it with leaves to hide it
• the admission of a non-testifying co-defendant’s statement that “they” went almost to Louisiana did not violate Bruton because that statement did not directly implicate the defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 85×
• Krause v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-22· cited 51×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-01-23· cited 34×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 32×
• Pulley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-07-02· cited 26×
• McLean v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 23×
• Simpkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-07· cited 12×
• Russell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 9×
• Hutto v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-11· cited 9×
• Boatright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-06-27· cited 8×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-09-17· cited 7×
• Stevens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 6×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 5×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-03· cited 5×
• Elkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 4×
• Timothy K. Hutto v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-11
• Karimah Elkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-24
• Darnell Craw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-09-19

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-09· cited 78×
• Metz v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 45×
• Daniel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-05-18· cited 33×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-12-01· cited 30×
• Mason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 23×
• Webb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-07· cited 22×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-05-08· cited 19×
• Mason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-07· cited 19×
• Edwards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-06-26· cited 16×
• Carruth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-10-21· cited 14×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-02-11· cited 11×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-12-01· cited 10×
• Nichols v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-04-29· cited 10×
• Tweedell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-09-13· cited 8×
• Smallwood v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-04-07· cited 6×