Supreme Court of South Carolina· 12/11/1995
Browning v. State
Citations
- 465 S.E.2d 358
- 320 S.C. 366
- 1995 S.C. LEXIS 207
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding circuit court lacked jurisdiction to accept second-degree burglary guilty plea where the indictment failed to allege any circumstance of aggravation
- finding the test of sufficiency of indictment is whether it contains necessary elements of offense intended to be charged and sufficiently apprises defendant of what he must be prepared to defend
- stating issues relating to subject matter jurisdiction may be raised at any time
- an indictment is sufficient only when it contains the necessary elements of the offense intended to be charged
- true test of sufficiency of an indictment is whether it contains the necessary elements
- true test of sufficiency of indictment is not whether it could be made more definite and certain, but whether it contains necessary elements of offense intended to be charged and sufficiently apprises defendant of what he must be prepared to meet
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Judges: Burnett, Finney, Toal, Moore, Waller
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40 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- State v. GentrySupreme Court of South Carolina· 2005-03-07· cited 229×
- State v. AdamsCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 2003-05-05· cited 161×
- State v. PattersonCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 1999-09-20· cited 92×
- Carter v. StateSupreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-01-19· cited 78×
- State v. TyndallCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 1999-05-24· cited 46×
- Brown v. StateSupreme Court of South Carolina· 2001-01-08· cited 44×
- State v. TumblestonCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-11-27· cited 31×
- Knox v. StateSupreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-04-24· cited 28×
- State v. BeamCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 1999-06-01· cited 28×
- Hope v. StateSupreme Court of South Carolina· 1997-10-13· cited 28×
- State v. McFaddenSupreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-10-23· cited 26×
- State v. GeigerCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 2006-09-25· cited 24×
- State v. LynchSupreme Court of South Carolina· 2001-04-16· cited 23×
- State v. GuthrieCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 2002-10-28· cited 22×
- State v. EvansSupreme Court of South Carolina· 1996-03-25· cited 20×
- State v. WilkesSupreme Court of South Carolina· 2003-03-17· cited 20×
- State v. ReddickCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 2002-02-19· cited 19×
- State v. GillCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 2003-06-23· cited 18×
- State v. LaCosteCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 2002-02-25· cited 17×
- State v. DudleyCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 2003-05-14· cited 17×
Cites
7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Montana v. HallSupreme Court· 1987-04-27· cited 172×
- State v. OwensSupreme Court of South Carolina· 1987-07-06· cited 61×
- State v. MunnSupreme Court of South Carolina· 1987-06-22· cited 43×
- State v. FunderburkSupreme Court of South Carolina· 1972-09-11· cited 26×
- Hopkins v. StateSupreme Court of South Carolina· 1994-11-28· cited 23×
- Williams v. StateSupreme Court of South Carolina· 1991-10-28· cited 16×
- Slack v. StateSupreme Court of South Carolina· 1993-04-12· cited 8×
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