State v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• noting malice “has been defined as the wrongful intent to injure another and indicates a wicked or depraved spirit intent on doing wrong”
• wrongful intent to injure another may give rise to finding of malice to support verdict of murder
• where evidence merely places defendant at scene of crime, but fails to show defendant committed the crime charged, defendant is entitled to directed verdict
• “Malice has been defined as the wrongful intent to injure another and indicates a wicked or depraved spirit intent on doing wrong.”
• mere presence at the scene of a crime is insufficient to convict one as a principal on the theory of aiding and abetting
• malice is the wrongful intent to injure another

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Yates v. Evatt
  Supreme Court· 1991-08-02· cited 932×
• State v. Kelsey
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-06-08· cited 143×
• Howard v. Moore
  Fourth Circuit· 1997-12-09· cited 123×
• State v. Adams
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1996-04-29· cited 113×
• State v. Foust
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1996-12-02· cited 63×
• State v. Owens
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1987-07-06· cited 61×
• Gilbert v. Moore
  Fourth Circuit· 1998-01-22· cited 61×
• State v. Zeigler
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2005-03-21· cited 60×
• State v. Condrey
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2002-04-01· cited 56×
• State v. Leonard
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1987-04-13· cited 42×
• State v. Wilds
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2003-07-21· cited 31×
• State v. Walker
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2002-04-08· cited 28×
• Young v. Catoe
  Fourth Circuit· 2000-03-03· cited 27×
• Tate v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2002-09-30· cited 21×
• State v. Dennis
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1996-03-18· cited 12×
• State v. Pilgrim
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1995-11-06· cited 11×
• State v. Glenn
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1997-09-19· cited 10×
• State v. Franklin
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1992-12-07· cited 9×
• Ronald Francis Smart v. William D. Leeke, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections Attorney General of South Carolina
  Fourth Circuit· 1988-10-27· cited 4×
• Yates v. Aiken
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-02-06· cited 4×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Crowe
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1972-04-21· cited 55×
• State v. Harvey
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1951-12-17· cited 31×
• State v. Fuller
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1956-06-14· cited 26×
• State v. Green
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1973-11-01· cited 17×
• In the Matter of Perkins
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1981-05-28· cited 5×