Watkins v. the State

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

• “Because each count of the indictment charged [Appellant] with a separate and distinct crime, his convictions for those crimes did not merge for purposes of sentencing.”
• under prior version of OCGA § 17-10-6.2, trial court was required to impose a split sentence that includes at least the minimum term of imprisonment and at least one year of probation, for a total of no more than the maximum prescribed sentence
• under 2006 version of OCGA § 17-10-6.2, trial court was required to impose a split sentence that includes at least the minimum term of imprisonment and at least one year of probation, for a total of no more than the maximum prescribed sentence
• under 2006 version of OCGA § 17-10-6.2, trial court was required to impose a split sentence that includes at least the minimum term of imprisonment and at least one year of probation, for a total of no more than the maximum prescribed sentence

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Cited by

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

• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-03-16· cited 16×
• McMurtry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-09-15· cited 8×
• ROWLAND v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-02-12· cited 7×
• Sneed v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-07-07· cited 6×
• Bryson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-05-23· cited 6×
• LOVE v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-03-07· cited 5×
• Adams v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-12-20· cited 3×
• Turner v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-09-26· cited 3×
• Winston E. Watkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-02-12
• Tommy R. Picklesimer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-02-20
• Robert Willis Owens, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-03-05
• Steven Spires v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-10-30
• Shavon Jabbar Prescott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-10-30
• Estuardo Bernal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-03-16
• Rodney Miles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-01-18
• McCullough v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-19
• Tony Shropshire v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-05-29
• Calvin Albright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-12-26
• Christopher Holmes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-05-23
• Jerome McMurtry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-09-15

Cites

28 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. Stonaker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-01-08· cited 349×
• Batten v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-30· cited 58×
• New v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-27· cited 52×
• Ney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-04-29· cited 45×
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-11-01· cited 43×
• State v. Layman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-05-23· cited 42×
• Metts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-04-06· cited 27×
• Spargo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-05-29· cited 25×
• Rash v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-02-19· cited 24×
• Malone v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-02-02· cited 24×
• Gamble v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 23×
• McLean v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 23×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-15· cited 22×
• Maddox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-07-11· cited 20×
• Blanton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-12· cited 18×
• Copeland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-11· cited 16×
• Stokes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-04-24· cited 15×
• Clark v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-31· cited 15×
• Madison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-20· cited 15×

Other cases named Watkins v. the State

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Watkins v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-02-14· cited 6×