White v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• one charged as an accessory to a crime may be entitled to show the principal was acquitted
• proof of principal’s guilt a necessary element in crime of one charged as aider, abettor, counselor, helper in commission of crime
• one charged as an accessory to a crime may be entitled to show the principal was acquitted
• acquittal of principal is relevant evidence in subsequent trial of an accomplice charged as a party to the crime, but it does not bar the accomplice’s conviction as a party

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Waldrip v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 109×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-08· cited 46×
• Harrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-10-07· cited 27×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-01-10· cited 22×
• McEachern v. McEachern
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-06-08· cited 20×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-03· cited 13×
• Hixon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-08-01· cited 12×
• Harvey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-27· cited 12×
• Burns v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-27· cited 8×
• State v. Roberts
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-09-17· cited 6×
• Hollman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-06-21· cited 5×
• Mobley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-01-11· cited 4×
• Griffin v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-02-18· cited 4×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-05-05· cited 3×
• COOKSTON v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-05-31
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-09-08
• Badie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-03-17

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1974-01-28· cited 34×
• Smith v. Goodwin
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1961-03-06· cited 34×
• Security Life Insurance v. Blitch
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-07-03· cited 13×
• People v. Paige
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1983-12-06· cited 10×
• People v. Beintner
  New York Supreme Court· 1918-02-04· cited 6×
• McCord v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-10-21· cited 5×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-12-04· cited 3×