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 testimony of specific acts unknown to a defendant are not directly probative of his belief that he is about to encounter unlawful deadly force
• holding that testimony of specific acts unknown to a defendant are not directly probative of his belief that he is about to encounter unlawful deadly force
• holding that the defense of justification in the use of physical force requires both that the actor reasonably believes that unlawful physical force is about to be used upon him and that he reasonably believes that the degree of force used to repel it was necessary
• specific evidence of violent character unknown to defendant at time of crime inadmissible to support affirmative defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Willie Lee Girtman v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction
  Eighth Circuit· 1991-08-08· cited 46×
• Sipe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2012-04-18· cited 14×
• Kyle Jordan Lawrence v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2015-07-31· cited 9×
• Bargery v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1992-03-04· cited 8×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2010-12-08· cited 6×
• Simpkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1994-12-07· cited 4×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2018-04-18· cited 1×
• Sims v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1986-10-01· cited 1×
• McDonald v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1993-05-12· cited 1×
• Tygart v. Kohler
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2003-06-04