Venturino 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 that there was no error in refusing to charge the jury on mutual combat where the defendant’s “own testimony ― in which he claimed self-defense ― contradicted a theory of mutual combat”
• explaining that “attorneys are not permitted to misstate the law to the jury”
• no error in refusing to charge on mutual combat where defendant’s “own testimony — in which he claimed self-defense — contradicted 15 a theory of mutual combat”
• Appellant “points to no record evidence that he and [the victim] intended to engage in mutual combat, and we can find none.”
• no error in refusing to charge the jury on mutual combat where defendant’s own testimony — in which he claimed self-defense — contradicted theory of mutual combat and there was no other evidence to support such a theory
• prosecutor’s misstatement of law during closing argument was harmless error in light of court’s instruction to jury upon defense’s objection that the court would be charging on what the law is and the court’s later correct jury charge on the law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Keller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-20· cited 59×
• Flowers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 45×
• State v. Hamilton
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 25×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 23×
• Neuman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-03-15· cited 22×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-11-04· cited 21×
• Bentley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 20×
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 19×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-29· cited 18×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 15×
• Knighton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-21· cited 13×
• Dunbar v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 13×
• Mann v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-27· cited 13×
• Wynn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-01· cited 13×
• Perez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 12×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-27· cited 10×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-24· cited 9×
• Albury v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-23· cited 8×
• Rountree v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-06-21· cited 8×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-04-19· cited 7×

Cites

25 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-04-25· cited 240×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 97×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 92×
• Moss v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 77×
• VIRGER v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 62×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 59×
• Virger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 59×
• Ramey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-01-06· cited 51×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 45×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-02-16· cited 42×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-08· cited 39×
• Carruth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-09· cited 38×
• Rivera v. the State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-30· cited 35×
• Jeffrey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 35×
• Kirkland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-06-14· cited 34×
• Pike v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 33×
• Durden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-03· cited 23×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 23×
• Nichols v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-09-24· cited 22×