State v. McGowan

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that if there is any direct evidence or any substantial circumstantial evidence reasonably tending to prove the guilt of the accused, this court must find the case was properly submitted to the jury
• \[W]hether or not [the defendant's] response was proportional to the threatened arrest was a matter for the jury.\
• \[W]hether or not [the defendant's] response was proportional to the threatened arrest was a matter for the jury.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Harris
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2002-10-14· cited 48×
• State v. Parris
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2003-03-10· cited 9×
• State v. Chisolm
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2003-06-02· cited 6×
• State v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2003-08-11· cited 3×
• Horton v. City of Columbia
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2014-02-26· cited 3×
• State v. Jason E. Stoots
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2025-01-23

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Kelsey
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-06-08· cited 143×
• State v. Burdette
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-04-05· cited 87×
• Loera v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2000-03-14· cited 51×
• State v. Locklair
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-06-26· cited 49×
• City of Bismarck v. Nassif
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1989-12-20· cited 44×
• Lewis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1923-01-26· cited 22×
• State v. Rowell
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1997-06-30· cited 18×
• State v. Poinsett
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1967-10-26· cited 16×
• State v. Perkins
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1991-12-09· cited 13×
• People v. Whitman
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1917-05-18· cited 9×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1984-02-16· cited 8×
• State v. Hutto
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1983-05-11· cited 7×
• Roach v. City of Eugene
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1893-01-09· cited 5×
• State v. Pittman
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2000-09-25· cited 4×
• Town of Springdale v. Butler
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-08-14· cited 1×