Walter v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that appellant had “cite[d] no precedent” requiring the instruction at issue
• “It is error to fail to give a jury instruction on accomplice liability where there is slight evidence supporting a finding that a witness was an accomplice.”
• “An error is plain if it is clear or obvious under current law. An error cannot be plain where there is no controlling authority on point.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• where the evidence showed the co-defendants acted in concert, severance was not required where the co-defendants blamed the defendant for the shooting and claimed that they were not present during or did not participate in the murder
• where the 16 evidence showed the co-defendants acted in concert, severance was not required where the co-defendants blamed the defendant for the shooting and claimed that they were not present during or did not participate in the murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 43×
• Ash v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-11-02· cited 30×
• Thornton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 29×
• Doyle v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 27×
• Horton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-05· cited 24×
• DRAUGHN v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-03· cited 23×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-11-23· cited 17×
• Lofton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-02-15· cited 17×
• Hurston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-02-15· cited 14×
• Abney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 10×
• Rice v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-04-05· cited 8×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10· cited 6×
• Demuro v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-08-21· cited 4×
• Samuel Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-09-23
• Van Alexander Pride v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-10-01
• Quenton Duffie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-15
• CHAPMAN v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-07-01
• Ivory v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-08-12
• Maddox v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15
• Brandon Wood v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-12-09

Cites

23 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×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• Brodes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-06-16· cited 139×
• Owens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 73×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-25· cited 67×
• Stripling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-29· cited 66×
• Hamm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-17· cited 62×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 60×
• Palmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-21· cited 51×
• Metz v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 45×
• Herbert v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-18· cited 37×
• Simpson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-01-19· cited 33×
• Barge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-02-24· cited 29×
• Kennedy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-07-02· cited 28×
• Loren v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-12-03· cited 28×
• Conway v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-03-19· cited 24×
• Kell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-06-26· cited 23×
• Marquez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-08· cited 16×
• Cato v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-09· cited 16×
• Saffold v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-21· cited 14×