Ward v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• where charging error misled or confused the jury with regard to the state’s burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, conviction must be reversed
• after concluding its charge on reasonable doubt, the trial court explained that its reasonable doubt charge was better expressed as a simple, honestly held belief that defendants were guilty
• approving this portion of the pattern jury instruction
• approving this portion of the pattern jury instruction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Billy Raulerson v. Warden
  Eleventh Circuit· 2019-06-28· cited 57×
• Williamson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-10-20· cited 32×
• Boone v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-05-07· cited 24×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-11-07· cited 17×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 8×
• Alexander v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-08· cited 6×
• Garmon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-09-30· cited 3×
• Edwards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-18· cited 2×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-03-28· cited 1×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-06-07

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Gober v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-02· cited 83×
• Foskey v. Foskey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-01-14· cited 72×
• Spearman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 21×