Smith v. State

How courts have described this case

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• affirming defendant’s conviction, as party to a crime of felony murder, after a joint jury trial; although an accomplice shot the victim and defendant was not the shooter, the defendant was part of the group that ambushed the victim
• evidence was sufficient to show defendant was a party to the crime of felony murder when defendant was part of a group that ambushed the victim, although another member actually shot the victim
• evidence was sufficient to show defendant was a party to the crime of felony murder when defendant was part of a group that ambushed the victim, although another member actually shot the victim
• “Under OCGA § 16-2-20, a person who intentionally aids or abets the commission of the crime, or intentionally advises, encourages, hires, counsels, or procures another to commit the crime[,] may be convicted of the 13 crime as a party to the crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 43×
• Debelbot v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-13· cited 26×
• Solomon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 16×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-07-11· cited 13×
• SMITH v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 12×
• Stewart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-04-27· cited 4×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Burks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-10-14· cited 42×
• Walsh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-11· cited 39×
• Tesfaye v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-09-16· cited 34×
• Belsar v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-24· cited 20×