State v. Hightower

How courts have described this case

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

• notwithstanding evidence thereof, assault and battery not deemed a lesser included offense where indictment alleged commission of armed robbery and not aggravated assault
• “[W]here the defendant is charged . . . with a specific crime it is not within the power of the judge or the jury to interpret the facts as presented at trial to support an alternative, separate offense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

28 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• McCrary v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-04-17· cited 69×
• Whiteley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-07-15· cited 39×
• 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×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-03-08· cited 32×
• Evans v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-03-15· cited 30×
• Scoggins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 29×
• McCoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-28· cited 28×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-01-31· cited 26×
• Bogan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-01-30· cited 20×
• Hayles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-10-30· cited 18×
• Glass v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-04-09· cited 17×
• Soto v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 17×
• Lowery v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-05-26· cited 15×
• Givens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-09-08· cited 14×
• Shuler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-06-07· cited 13×
• Patterson v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-04-10· cited 13×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-08-20· cited 12×
• Faust v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-12-01· cited 11×
• Recoba v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-04-23· cited 11×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Stonaker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-01-08· cited 349×
• State v. Estevez
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-05-28· cited 236×
• Haynes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-01-05· cited 86×
• Tuggle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-04-06· cited 40×
• Harvey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-10-01· cited 35×
• Hightower v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-05-06· cited 7×
• Wallace v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-09-10· cited 5×