257 Ga. App. 696 - Downs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gibbons v. State · Jones v. State · Walraven v. State · Turner v. State · State v. Lucious
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he State's burden never shifts to the defendant to disprove venue, as it is axiomatic that the evidentiary burden in a criminal prosecution is upon the State to prove every material allegation of the indictment and every essential element of the crime charged beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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