Pritchard v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• corroboration must be independent of the testimony of the accomplice, thus, physical evidence that corroborated testimony of the accomplice without connecting the accused to the offense was insufficient to sustain a conviction
• corroboration must be independent of the testimony of the accomplice, thus, physical evidence that corroborated testimony of the accomplice without connecting the accused to the offense was insufficient to sustain a conviction
• “Since the statute authorizing directed verdicts in existence at the time the Sutton case was decided has been repealed, . . . [Sutton] is no longer controlling authority.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

32 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Birt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-04-20· cited 153×
• Merino v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-05-10· cited 107×
• Geiger v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1973-07-11· cited 40×
• James Burston v. E. B. Caldwell, Warden, Georgia State Prison
  Fifth Circuit· 1975-01-06· cited 39×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1982-11-22· cited 26×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1971-01-21· cited 21×
• Slocum v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-07-02· cited 20×
• Bowen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-07· cited 19×
• Harrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-10-19· cited 18×
• Stinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-09-26· cited 17×
• Pritchard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1969-11-06· cited 15×
• Caldwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1971-06-16· cited 15×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1971-07-09· cited 15×
• Norman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1970-04-30· cited 14×
• Haile v. Pittman
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-12-05· cited 14×
• Touchstone v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1970-03-19· cited 13×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1972-04-06· cited 13×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1969-06-13· cited 10×
• MacOn-bibb County Hospital Authority v. Appleton
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1971-02-09· cited 9×
• Payne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-06-25· cited 9×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1959-10-09· cited 54×
• Lanier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1939-02-16· cited 54×
• Price v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1952-02-11· cited 42×
• Sutton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1967-04-20· cited 11×
• McCluskey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1956-06-11· cited 6×