State v. Lawrence

How courts have described this case

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

• even if directed verdict improvidently granted, the State cannot challenge it on appeal
• “[T]he government may not appeal a trial court’s grant to a criminal defendant of a directed verdict of acquittal based on an insufficiency of the evidence to support a conviction, even if the directed verdict is erroneously granted.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gooch v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-05-17· cited 19×
• State v. Shabazz
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-03· cited 13×
• State v. Henderson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-12-19· cited 10×
• State v. Schuman
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-04-20

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Strickman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-09-06· cited 40×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-12-02· cited 27×
• State v. McKenna
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-03-19· cited 11×
• The STATE v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-02-01· cited 10×
• Morris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-10-08· cited 8×