Watson 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 sufficient evidence to show that the defendant committed aggravated assault when he threw a glass bowl at the victim
• concluding that the victim’s “act of raising her hand protectively” demonstrated reasonable apprehension of immediate violent injury
• holding that there was sufficient evidence of aggravated assault when defendant threw a glass bowl at his manager and “the manager’s act of raising her hand protectively showed apprehension of violent injury”
• “[T]he State was only required to show an attempt to commit a violent injury, or an act that places another in reasonable apprehension thereof.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• to prove aggravated assault “the State was only required to show that [the object used against the victim] was likely to result in serious bodily injury, not that it actually caused such injury”
• victim’s act of raising her hand protectively showed apprehension of violent injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Cantu v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 10×
• Riddick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-19· cited 7×
• Myers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-09-14· cited 4×
• In THE INTEREST OF L. J., a Child
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-06-29· cited 3×
• In the Interest of I. H., a Child
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-11· cited 1×
• In the Interest of J.H., a Child v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-03-13
• Eugene Donald Tyson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-02-16
• Joana Espinosa-Herrera v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-09-15
• William Riddick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-19
• In the Interest of K.R., a Child
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-11-03

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Short v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-10-05· cited 469×
• Coney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-19· cited 20×
• Brinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-01· cited 16×
• Peterson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-06-10· cited 15×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-14· cited 15×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-09-15· cited 12×
• Willingham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-05· cited 11×
• Straker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-26· cited 7×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-02-17· cited 1×