State v. Davis

How courts have described this case

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

• holding voluntary manslaughter charge was proper where a witness testified that defendant and victim had been fighting
• holding witness's testimony that defendant and victim had been fighting was circumstance of provocation and heat of passion and guilt of voluntary manslaughter could be logically deduced and was thus properly submitted to the jury
• where there is evidence tending to establish guilt on a charge, neither the refusal to direct a verdict of acquittal nor the refusal to grant a new trial is error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Nichols
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1997-01-20· cited 80×
• State v. Locklair
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-06-26· cited 49×
• State v. Lowry
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1993-07-12· cited 34×
• State v. Tyson
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1984-11-12· cited 27×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1992-03-11· cited 21×
• State v. Grubbs
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2003-02-18· cited 15×
• State v. Cherry
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2001-11-13· cited 13×
• State v. McCall
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1991-04-22· cited 9×
• Rice v. School Dist. of Fairfield
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1994-12-12· cited 9×
• State v. Lowry
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1992-11-16

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Kahan
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1977-03-15· cited 19×
• State v. Crocker
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1979-01-31· cited 19×
• State v. Goodstein
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1982-06-15· cited 9×
• State v. Pauling
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1975-04-28· cited 8×
• Arkwright v. Taulbee
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-22· cited 4×