Bruce v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Where an indictment or affidavit is uncertain or ambiguous, or where its language admits of more than one construction, all reasonable doubts are to be resolved in favor of the accused and it will be construed most strongly against the state.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Madison v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1955-11-04· cited 77×
• McFarland v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1979-01-22· cited 42×
• Short v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1954-10-21· cited 41×
• Marquise Lee v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2015-05-14· cited 28×
• Sanford v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1971-01-26· cited 27×
• McCormick v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1954-04-30· cited 19×
• Maynard v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1987-06-17· cited 19×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1979-03-01· cited 18×
• Belcher v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1974-12-12· cited 15×
• Pruitt v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1975-09-23· cited 13×
• Yarbrough v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1986-09-02· cited 12×
• Lewis v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1980-12-30· cited 10×
• Wilson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1953-05-27· cited 7×
• Anderson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1966-02-28· cited 6×
• Durbin v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1957-02-27· cited 5×
• Mason v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1979-07-26· cited 4×
• Bailey v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1974-07-30· cited 3×
• Latoya Lee v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2015-11-05· cited 2×
• Catt v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1976-01-26· cited 1×
• Zachariah Micahel Paukan v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2023-09-22

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hazlett v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1951-07-20· cited 37×
• Chandler v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1895-01-11· cited 34×
• Goldstine v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1952-02-07· cited 29×
• Littell v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1893-02-16· cited 28×
• McGuire v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1875-05-15· cited 22×
• Howard v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1879-11-15· cited 22×
• Thetge v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1882-05-15· cited 9×
• Rose v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1870-07-01· cited 7×
• Freel v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1890-09-23· cited 1×