Sanders 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 if there is any evidence from which the jury could have found that both parties intended to resolve their differences by fighting each other with deadly weapons, there is no error in giving a charge on mutual combat
• holding that if there is any evidence from which the jury could have found that both parties intended to resolve their differences by fighting each other with deadly weapons, there is no error in giving a charge on mutual combat
• “A charge on mutual combat ‘is warranted only when the combatants are armed with deadly weapons and mutually agree to fight.’” (emphasis added) (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-06· cited 147×
• State v. Spates
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2010-03-19· cited 42×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 34×
• State v. Mobley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-02· cited 23×
• Daniels v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-20· cited 22×
• Browning v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-05-19· cited 16×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-09-22· cited 15×
• Goodman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-06· cited 15×
• Nichols v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-09-28· cited 14×
• Berrian v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-10-05· cited 14×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 13×
• Martinez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-07· cited 12×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-02-25· cited 8×
• Olds v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-10-08· cited 7×
• Redding v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-07· cited 6×
• Mahoney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-11· cited 5×
• Platt v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-03· cited 5×
• JOHNSON v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-14· cited 3×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-05-13· cited 1×
• State Of Iowa Vs. Christopher Deangelo Spates
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2010-03-19

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Pruitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-05-14· cited 124×
• Holcomb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-05-12· cited 95×
• McDaniel v. THE STATE
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-10-24· cited 41×
• Sinkfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-05-28· cited 31×
• Willingham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-11-21· cited 24×
• Nichols v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-08· cited 23×
• MacK v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-01-04· cited 17×
• Moses v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-09· cited 16×
• Carreker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-22· cited 16×
• Archie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-14· cited 15×
• Tillman v. Massey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-11-20· cited 15×
• Cherry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-02-22· cited 14×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-12-01· cited 10×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-05-09· cited 7×
• Fleming v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-04-30· cited 3×