Phillips 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 the failure to give an accident instruction did not require reversal because the jury’s decision to convict the defendant of murder necessarily meant that it concluded the defendant acted intentionally rather than by accident
• holding that the failure to give an accident instruction did not require reversal because the jury's decision to convict the defendant of murder necessarily meant that it concluded the defendant acted intentionally rather than by accident
• trial court’s failure to give an 14 accident instruction not reversible error because jury’s decision to find defendant guilty of malice murder necessarily meant it found that the defendant acted intentionally

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Beauchamp v. Knight
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-10-18· cited 86×
• Towry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-05-20· cited 44×
• New v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-10-04· cited 17×
• Tankersley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-06-12· cited 17×
• Sears v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-17· cited 17×
• Austin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-11-01· cited 6×
• Casey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-07-08· cited 5×
• Colley v. Dillon
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-04-30· cited 4×
• Spence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 4×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-06-18· cited 3×
• Mays v. Daniels
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-09-05· cited 1×
• Ward v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-05-25
• Thomas v. Douglas
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-01-14

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• DeBerry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-04-04· cited 37×
• Moody v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-09-06· cited 32×
• Wilkie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-02-26· cited 27×