Thornton v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding trial court did not abuse its discretion by denying defendant’s mo- tion for continuance where defendant failed to show he diligently 12 investigated and subpoenaed relevant evidence
• holding that any error in the admission of a GBI agent’s testimony about how a particular bloodstain was formed was harmless, because there was no dispute that the victim was stabbed numerous times, the testimony did not implicate the appellant, and the evidence of his guilt was strong
• rejecting argument that there was no evidence showing when or how the defendant obtained the victim’s property because the defendant had a knife when he encountered the victim and jury could conclude from evidence whether he obtained property by armed robbery
• “We will not disturb a trial court’s decision to deny a motion for continuance without a clear showing that the court abused its broad discretion.”
• evidence was sufficient for the jury to find that the defendant had used a knife to take the victim’s cell phone away either before or after killing her, either of which would constitute armed robbery

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Saxton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-12-14· cited 6×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-06-11· cited 5×
• BOSTIC v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-30
• Snow v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-05-19

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• State v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 247×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 135×
• Anglin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-16· cited 118×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 92×
• VIRGER v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 62×
• Virger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 59×
• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 32×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-20· cited 27×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-11-04· cited 21×
• Fox v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-28· cited 20×
• Phoenix v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 16×
• Phx. v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 13×
• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-21· cited 12×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 9×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-05· cited 8×