Turner v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• jury charges on both accident and justification authorized when defendant asserts his weapon discharged accidentally while he was defending himself
• jury charges on both accident and justification authorized when defendant asserts his weapon discharged accidentally while he was defending himself
• charge on accident may be warranted where defendant claims weapon accidentally discharged while defending himself
• “There is no hard and fast rule... that the law of accident and of self defense are always ‘mutually exclusive’ ”
• where the defendant testified that his weapon accidentally discharged while he was defending himself
• “the facts of a case will, at times, present a situation where a party who is armed with a weapon contends that while he was defending himself from another party, his weapon accidentally discharged and killed that other party”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 107×
• Berry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-02-03· cited 61×
• Kilpatrick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-12-13· cited 59×
• McClure v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 48×
• Lindsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-01-08· cited 44×
• Koritta v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-01-10· cited 41×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-03· cited 41×
• Head v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-02-25· cited 37×
• Tessmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-30· cited 30×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 26×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-11-21· cited 23×
• Varner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-03· cited 23×
• Dolensek v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-01-14· cited 22×
• Strong v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-11-08· cited 21×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 20×
• Shah v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-31· cited 19×
• Riley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-07-05· cited 18×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 18×
• Sears v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-17· cited 17×
• Blackford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-08-22· cited 16×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Mathews v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1988-02-24· cited 1,244×
• DeBerry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-04-04· cited 37×
• Duke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-01-16· cited 19×
• Curry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1918-11-16· cited 19×
• Culbreath v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-06-22· cited 14×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-10-18· cited 14×