Baggett v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that although trial courts generally enjoy discretion regarding the admissibility of evidence, such discretion is not absolute and may be overturned on appeal if arbitrarily exercised
• stating that “an accused may not successfully plead involuntary intoxication because he drank at the request or suggestion of another . . . or because he drank to relieve physical pain, or from an uncontrollable desire caused by long indulgence of the appetite” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Ballard
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-05-24· cited 786×
• State v. Oody
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1991-05-30· cited 491×
• State v. Gaylor
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1992-09-24· cited 136×
• State v. Wiseman
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1982-08-20· cited 101×
• State v. Anderson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1994-01-20· cited 75×
• State v. Schimpf
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1989-03-23· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Kuhn
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-03-23· cited 37×
• Hernandez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1982-07-28· cited 11×
• Nolan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1978-02-15· cited 6×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1982-11-10· cited 3×
• State of Tennessee v. Nicholas Ray Tipton
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-10-11
• State of Tennessee v. John Barlow
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-04-26
• State of Tennessee v. Darrell Anderson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-04-09
• State v. Edison
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1997-06-18
• State v. Luther Ray Dotson, Jr.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-12-01
• State of Tennessee v. Robert Edward Fritts
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2014-02-10
• Mark L. Peck v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2014-07-28
• State of Tennessee v. Calvin Jones
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2014-07-31
• State of Tennessee v. Jesse Wayne Craddock
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2026-04-16