State v. Lane

How courts have described this case

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• jury’s notes that it acquitted defendant of murder, prior to returning verdict of guilty, were insufficient to impeach verdict
• jury’s notes that it acquitted defendant of murder, prior to returning verdict of guilty, were insufficient to impeach verdict
• since jury had not entered verdict on murder charge prior to mistrial, State could retry defendant on both murder charge and lesser included offense of voluntary manslaughter under original indictment
• note from jurors to judge indicating that they had acquitted defendant of murder was not a verdict because it was not received and published in open court
• note from jurors to judge indicating that they had acquitted defendant of murder was not a verdict because it was not received and published in open court
• “the trial court was incorrect in ruling that the jury ‘(arrived) at a not guilty verdict for murder’” where the jury merely had “handed notes to the trial court” (emphasis in original)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Alexander v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-10-03· cited 22×
• Corley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-03-13· cited 16×
• State v. Archie
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-01-08· cited 14×
• WellStar Health System, Inc. v. Sutton
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-27· cited 9×
• Easley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-24· cited 5×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-16· cited 5×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-11-15· cited 1×
• Devin Washington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-23
• Devin Washington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-11-21
• Wellstar Health System, Inc. v. Tucker Sutton
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-27

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-04-20· cited 21×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-03-18· cited 18×