New v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[A]iming a gun at someone’s face is an utter disregard for the safety of that person and constitutes criminal negligence. Therefore, according to OCGA § 16- 2-2, the defense of accident is inapplicable.”
• “[A]iming a gun at someone’s face is an utter disregard for the safety of that person and constitutes criminal negligence. Therefore, according to OCGA § 16- 2-2, the defense of accident is inapplicable.”
• a jury instruction on accident was not appropriate in a case in which the defendant testified he cocked and aimed a gun at the victim, because such conduct constitutes criminal negligence
• defense of accident inapplicable where defendant shot victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 107×
• Browner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-03· cited 28×
• Tankersley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-06-12· cited 17×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-21· cited 15×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-04-30· cited 15×
• Stiles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-09-19· cited 12×
• Stewart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 9×
• Mayberry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 7×
• State v. Green
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2007-02-21· cited 5×
• Rammage v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-27· cited 5×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-01-22· cited 4×
• Bonner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 4×
• Mangold v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-01-18· cited 3×
• Murphy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-07-07· cited 2×
• McBurnette v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-10· cited 2×
• Justin Jonker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-07-15

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-01-16· cited 16×