262 Ga. App. 426 - Stewart v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
October 2017
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sallie v. State · Speed v. State · 245 Ga. App. 645 - Ganas v. State · Willis v. State · Pullin v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[t]he contested charge originated, not from the Pattern Jury Instructions, but from this Court’s opinion in Spradlin v. State, [supra]. That case addressed the issue of whether the defendant, who was charged with voluntary manslaughter in a stabbing death, was entitled to a charge of involuntary manslaughter where he asserted a claim of self-defense. The Spradlin opinion held that it was reversible error for the trial court to refuse to give a charge on involuntary manslaughter under the facts of that case. But in Bangs v. State, [supra], this Court recognized that the Spradlin decision had been overruled by the decisions of the Supreme Court of Georgia in Pullin v. State, 257 Ga. 815, 817 (4) ( 364 SE2d 848 ) (1988), and Willis v. State, 258 Ga. 477 -478 (1) ( 371 SE2d 376 ) (1988).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bailey v. State“[nevertheless, this Court held in Campbell v. State, 207 Ga. App. 902, 906 (5) ( 429 SE2d 538 ) (1993), that it was not error to charge this language . . . where the charge as a whole encompassed the elements of self-defense under OCGA § 16-3-21. “ ‘It is a fundamental rule that jury instructions must be considered as a whole in determining whether the charge contained error.’ [Cit.]” Durham v. State, 259 Ga. App. 829, 830 ( 578 SE2d 514 ) (2003).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bailey v. State“[q]uestions seeking to test the prospective jurors' willingness to accept defenses have been disallowed and upheld on appeal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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