162 Ga. App. 435 - Hobgood v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “conviction generally should not be reversed in any case, however, where the charge of the court fully and adequately covers the requisite elements of the crime charged, the requirement of criminal intent to commit the crime charged, and other material defenses thereto (see Jordon v. State, 232 Ga. 749 (4) ( 208 SE2d 840 ) [(1974)]; McClendon v. State, 231 Ga. 47 ( 199 SE2d 904 ) [(1973)]), and where a reasonable trier of fact could find from the evidence proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Boyd v. State, 244 Ga. 130, 132 ( 259 SE2d 71 ) [(1979)]; Turner v. State, 151 Ga. App. 169, 170 ( 259 SE2d 171 ) [(1979)]. This is so because where the jury has heard the defense and has been properly charged as to the state’s burden of proof, the elements of the crime and the requirement of criminal intent, and as to material defenses, a finding of guilt necessarily finds the requisite criminal intent and therefore negates any possibility that the jury, had it been charged mistake of fact, would have acquitted. See Lamar v. State, 243 Ga. 401, 403 (6) ( 254 SE2d 353 ) [(1979)].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 258 Ga. App. 156 - Hall v. State