Britt 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 a gun taken during a burglary satisfies the deadly weapon requirement of § 6-3-301(c)(i)
• possession of a firearm inside a building or while fleeing from a building \certainly tends to escalate a dangerous situation\
• possession of a firearm inside a building or while fleeing from a building “certainly tends to escalate a dangerous situation”
• the defendant became armed with a deadly weapon where, during the course of a burglary, he and others stole firearms; defendant was properly convicted of aggravated burglary
• defendant who broke into gun shop and stole 10 weapons, including a Baretta .22 automatic with silencer (which the court noted is an assassin's gun rather than a sporting gun

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Brown
  Washington Supreme Court· 2007-12-13· cited 83×
• Dike v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1999-11-30· cited 35×
• Buchannon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1989-05-12· cited 34×
• State v. Padilla
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1996-05-20· cited 25×
• State v. Merritt
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1991-04-23· cited 24×
• People v. Loomis
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1992-12-31· cited 18×
• Sutherland v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1997-09-16· cited 16×
• Rands v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1991-09-25· cited 11×
• State v. Sales
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2008-06-26· cited 3×
• State of Indiana v. Amber E. McHenry
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-04-12· cited 3×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Stern
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1974-09-16· cited 65×
• Evanson v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1976-02-26· cited 56×
• Oakley v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1986-03-19· cited 36×
• State v. Luna
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1982-11-18· cited 25×
• State v. Romero
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1982-10-05· cited 20×
• Meadows v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1977-05-13· cited 18×
• Shafsky v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1974-09-04· cited 15×
• Simmons v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1984-01-20· cited 14×
• Owens v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1920-02-27· cited 14×