210 Ga. App. 99 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
May 2009
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. State · Hamilton v. State · Harris v. State · Robinson v. State · 127 Ga. App. 797 - Townsend v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“In light of . . . [Robinson], a trial court positively invites reversal of a criminal conviction when it fails to give the circumstantial evidence charge whenever such a charge is requested .... Virtually every case contains some circumstantial evidence and, if the charge is not given, stands in danger of being reversed for clearly harmful and erroneous error. The charge is a fundamental principle of law as to criminal guilt and there is no reason not to give it; the [sjtate is not harmed by it and has no right to have it omitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mims v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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