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Smith v. State

Citations

  • 629 S.E.2d 816
  • 280 Ga. 490
  • 2006 Fulton County D. Rep. 1421
  • 2006 Ga. LEXIS 257

How courts have described this case

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

  • an allegedly erroneous jury instruction “must be considered in the context of the court’s instruction as a whole”
  • an allegedly erroneous jury instruction “must be considered in the context of the court’s instruction as a whole”
  • where aggravated assault with a deadly weapon is alleged to have placed the victim in reasonable apprehension of harm, “intent to injure is not an element of the charged offense”
  • in aggravated assault case involving deadly weapon, all that is required is that assailant intend to commit act which in fact places another in reasonable apprehension of violent injury, not that assailant specifically intend to cause such apprehension

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Judges: Hines

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