State v. Hanna

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the State was authorized to appeal because the defendant was sentenced for a crime of which she was not convicted, resulting in a void sentence
• explaining that rule of lenity argument may be raised by filing a general demurrer or in a challenge after conviction
• “[A] sentence which is not allowed by law is void, and its illegality may not be waived.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• DAVIS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 67×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 64×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 28×
• Smallwood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-11-12· cited 16×
• Kinslow v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 10×
• Daniels v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 6×
• GARDHIGH v. THE STATE (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-16· cited 6×
• Sosebee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 6×
• Polanco v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-04-19· cited 3×
• Orlando Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-02-06
• Patrick Rice v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-03-13
• Johnathan Keith Towns v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-10-21
• Christopher Kamusoko v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-01-14
• Oluwole Olushola v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-10-23
• Courtney Lofton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-10-15
• State v. Fidelis Besong
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-12-30
• State v. Jonathan Lynn Stansell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-04-29

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• von Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-09· cited 454×
• State v. Evans
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-06· cited 117×
• Banta v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-25· cited 61×
• Gee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1969-11-06· cited 57×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-03· cited 54×
• Kaiser v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-03-28· cited 54×
• Blackwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 39×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-19· cited 38×
• McNair v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 32×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12· cited 24×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-02-04· cited 19×
• Humphrey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-06· cited 18×
• State v. Owens
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 17×
• State v. Hudson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-15· cited 16×
• Mathis v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-16· cited 14×
• Pierce v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-03· cited 11×
• Bynes v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-16· cited 11×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 7×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-10-18· cited 4×