State v. Freeman

How courts have described this case

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

• looking to the substance of the order, rather than nomenclature, to discern its effect
• implicitly finding mutually exclusive verdicts and that convictions entered thereupon were “illegal or void as a matter of law”
• guilty both as party and as accessory after the fact
• State did not object to erroneous charge
• State did not object to erroneous charge
• where trial court “set aside the murder conviction on legal grounds based on a defect appearing on the face of the record[,]” order was in effect an order in arrest of judgment and State was entitled to 3 a direct appeal under OCGA § 5-7-1

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-24· cited 96×
• Givens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-05-07· cited 42×
• Nalls v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-04· cited 33×
• NALLS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-04· cited 33×
• Vergara v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 32×
• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-08· cited 31×
• McCoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-28· cited 28×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-23· cited 26×
• Kennedy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-22· cited 19×
• Ingram v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-06· cited 12×
• State v. Hammons
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-11-01· cited 8×
• State v. Chapman
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-05-30· cited 8×
• Stanton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-25· cited 7×
• Cox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-11· cited 6×
• Louis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-07· cited 3×
• Frady v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-09-30· cited 3×
• In the Interest of D. B., a Child
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-05· cited 2×
• State v. Jordan Lavoris Dean
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-10-08
• State v. Laquaine Darryle Chapman
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-05-30

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Dumas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-06-17· cited 82×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 68×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1965-05-06· cited 67×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-10· cited 61×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-13· cited 57×
• Dennard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 55×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-08· cited 46×
• Gunn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1971-07-09· cited 27×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1972-12-04· cited 22×
• Pippin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1931-02-14· cited 18×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-09· cited 16×
• Ivey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1938-05-20· cited 11×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-13· cited 8×