Bell v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining in dicta that an argument that guilty verdicts for larceny and receiving stolen goods were inconsistent might have been waived since it was not raised below
• verdict of guilt on two inconsistent counts, larceny and receiving stolen goods, defective because defendant cannot be both thief and receiver as to same goods
• verdict of guilt on two inconsistent counts, larceny and receiving stolen goods, defective because defendant cannot be both thief and receiver as to same goods
• verdict of guilt on two inconsistent counts, larceny and receiving stolen goods, defective because defendant cannot be both thief and receiver as to same goods
• a general verdict of guilty on two inconsistent counts, such as larceny and receiving stolen goods, is defective and cannot stand because a defendant cannot be both a thief and a receiver

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Hawkins
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-04-13· cited 132×
• Cross v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-05-04· cited 104×
• State v. Jenkins
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-10-07· cited 101×
• State v. Frazier
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-04-10· cited 96×
• Boone v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1967-09-28· cited 80×
• State v. Springer
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 67×
• People v. Frye
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1995-06-26· cited 57×
• Fletcher v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1963-03-27· cited 47×
• McCray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-07-15· cited 44×
• Ledbetter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1961-02-08· cited 39×
• State v. Standifur
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-06-19· cited 36×
• Young v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1959-05-12· cited 33×
• Hardesty v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1960-12-09· cited 33×
• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1984-07-13· cited 26×
• Dickens v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-07-02· cited 26×
• Dailey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-04-08· cited 24×
• McGlothlin v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1967-05-09· cited 23×
• Travis v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-08-26· cited 22×
• Carter v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1970-07-21· cited 21×
• Acquah v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1996-12-26· cited 20×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jordan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1965-09-01· cited 78×
• Hayette v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1972-10-01· cited 52×
• Debinski v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1950-02-08· cited 46×
• Berry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1953-03-17· cited 43×
• Polansky v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-10-07· cited 32×
• Lloyd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1959-03-18· cited 19×
• Worley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1955-03-17· cited 13×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1956-05-23· cited 3×