Beard v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• former conviction admissible on motive and malice to aid jury in assessing punishment on guilty plea to killing deputy sheriff in attempted escape from jail
• former conviction admissible on motive and malice to aid jury in assessing punishment on guilty plea to killing deputy sheriff in attempted escape from jail
• “We think it quite clear that the word ‘thereupon’ means and refers to the punishment to be meted out by the jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

27 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Wilkerson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-07-01· cited 115×
• Fitzgerald v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-01-17· cited 95×
• Cherry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-06-28· cited 83×
• Johns v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1951-01-17· cited 78×
• Rojas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1966-06-08· cited 68×
• Arnott v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-07-17· cited 52×
• Chappell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-02-05· cited 49×
• Asay v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-07-22· cited 46×
• Pittman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1968-07-24· cited 44×
• Morgan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-11-02· cited 43×
• Haley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1952-02-06· cited 33×
• Mason v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-05-02· cited 27×
• Whan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-02-26· cited 26×
• Vavra v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1961-01-11· cited 25×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1963-01-02· cited 25×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1960-06-22· cited 20×
• Harrison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-11-28· cited 16×
• Hemmeline v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1958-02-19· cited 13×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-06-09· cited 11×
• Alvarez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1953-12-16· cited 9×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• The People v. Scheck
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1934-02-23· cited 27×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1890-10-25· cited 25×
• Burns v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1934-10-17· cited 5×