Nichols v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• evidence was insufficient to sustain conviction for aggravated assault when defendant grabbed officer's hand as officer was reaching for defendant's knife in leather holder attached to his belt
• evidence was insufficient to sustain conviction for aggravated assault when defendant grabbed officer’s hand as officer was reaching for defendant’s knife in leather holder attached to his belt
• evidence insufficient to show aggravated assault, where the defendant never actually touched the knife or threatened the officer with it; at most, the evidence showed that defendant unsuccessfully reached for the knife and briefly struggled with officer over it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-02-17· cited 12×
• In the Interest of J. A. C.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-30· cited 12×
• Owens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-11-15· cited 7×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-14· cited 6×
• Weaver v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-07-16· cited 4×
• In Re Jac
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-30

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Smith v. Hardrick
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-12-04· cited 95×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-11-10· cited 50×
• Reeves v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-08-10· cited 31×
• Littleton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-18· cited 26×
• Alex v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-03-15· cited 14×
• Nash v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-09-16· cited 14×
• Pearson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-03· cited 14×
• McSears v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-04-04· cited 10×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-06-09· cited 8×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-04-09· cited 5×