Thomas v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• overturning defendant’s conviction where trial court failed to charge the jury that he could not be convicted of both theft by taking and theft by receiving, and the jury found him guilty of both
• overturning defendant’s conviction where trial court failed to charge the jury that he could not be convicted of both theft by taking and theft by receiving, and the jury found him guilty of both
• even where defendant seeks to cross-examine co-defendant with prior conviction, trial court retains wide latitude to impose limits on cross-examination
• armed robbery and theft by receiving are mutually exclusive and new trial required
• setting forth the rule against mutually exclusive guilty verdicts
• robbery and theft by receiving

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-24· cited 96×
• Dumas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-06-17· cited 82×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 68×
• State v. Springer
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 67×
• Dennard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 55×
• Flores v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-04-27· cited 42×
• York v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-01-21· cited 38×
• McELRATH v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 37×
• Ex Parte State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2007-01-12· cited 32×
• Kimble v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-06-03· cited 31×
• Marriott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-01· cited 28×
• Ex Parte Dorsey
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2003-04-25· cited 23×
• State v. Freeman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 22×
• Pender v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-03-15· cited 19×
• Middleton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-01· cited 18×
• Strong v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-11-01· cited 17×
• State v. Owens
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 17×
• Ingram v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-06-28· cited 16×
• Nealy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-08-18· cited 14×
• Camsler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-01-21· cited 14×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Milanovich v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1961-03-20· cited 308×
• United States v. Gaddis
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-03· cited 209×
• Austin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1954-02-17· cited 32×
• Sosbee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-07-07· cited 32×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-04-03· cited 23×
• Redding v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-07-14· cited 12×