244 Ga. App. 667 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
March 2016
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Edwards v. State · Coleman v. State · 214 Ga. App. 311 - King v. State · 226 Ga. App. 441 - Thomas v. State · Pearson v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“The complete rule with regard to giving a defendant’s requested charge on a lesser included offense is: where the state’s evidence establishes all of the elements of an offense and there is no evidence raising the lesser offense, there is no error in failing to give a charge on the lesser offense. (But) where a case contains some evidence, no matter how slight, that shows that the defendant committed a lesser offense, then the court should charge the jury on that offense. 8”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cook v. State
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