Smith v. Hardrick

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a guilty plea waives all defenses other than that the indictment fails to charge a crime
• recognizing the well-established principle that \ '[a] plea of guilty ... waives all defenses other than that the indictment charges no crime' \ (Citations and emphasis omitted.)
• recognizing the well- established principle that ‘“(a) plea of guilty . . . waives all defenses other than that the indictment charges no crime”’ (Citations and emphasis omitted.)
• noting—in a case involving the use of defendant’s hands—that Georgia aggravated assault requires the assault be “aggravated by either (a) an intention to murder, rape or rob, or (b) the use of a deadly weapon”
• a non-homicide case where the indictment alleged only that defendant placed his hands around the victim’s neck and used them to apply pressure
• aggravated assault by use of hands, which, unlike guns, are not per se deadly weapons

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).