Brewer v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[A]n essential ingredient of the indictment was omitted and the indictment was invalid. Under these circumstances the indictment could not be amended.”
• “[A] comparison of the indictment to the criminal statute would not disclose that a crime was charged.”
• amendment which added name of illegal drug to indictment was substantive and improper

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Copeland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-12-22· cited 56×
• Porter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-08-24· cited 45×
• Shirley Warren v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2016-03-31· cited 42×
• Patton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-05-13· cited 20×
• Coleman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-09-24· cited 18×
• Pool v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-08-17· cited 17×
• Mixon v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-12-08· cited 15×
• Durr v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-03-14· cited 15×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-01-06· cited 12×
• Hawthorne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-06-29· cited 12×
• Johnny Pool v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-12-01
• Kenny Ray Smith v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-10-16
• Darryl Mixon v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-03-12
• Edgar Patton v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-09-05
• Curtis Valentine a/k/a Curtis Lee Valentine v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2021-06-10
• Kelton K. Hathorne, Sr. a/k/a Kelton K. Hathorne v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2023-11-09
• Kelton K. Hathorne, Sr. a/k/a Kelton K. Hathorne v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2023-01-17
• David Lee Star a/k/a David Star v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2025-02-25

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Love v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1951-05-07· cited 64×
• Hannah v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-09-14· cited 52×
• Sanders v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1975-05-26· cited 16×
• Bennett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 14×
• State Ex Rel. Hubbard v. Spillers
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1974-02-05· cited 13×
• Hart v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1965-12-15· cited 12×
• Jones v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1952-11-10· cited 11×
• Wortham v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1969-03-03· cited 11×
• State v. Starks
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1967-09-11· cited 10×
• Torrence v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-10-08· cited 8×
• Cohran v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1954-02-01· cited 7×
• Yingst v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1973-08-30· cited 5×
• States v. Hammers
  S.D. Florida· 1917-04-23· cited 5×
• Hearn v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1954-01-04· cited 4×
• Mills v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1957-10-14· cited 3×
• McPhail v. McPhail
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-11-09· cited 1×