Carpenter v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a court may not look beyond the face of murder indictment to see if there is sufficient evidence to support it
• theft indictment quashed because it did not describe property that was subject of theft
• “This Court has consistently refused to go behind the indictment where it is valid on its face.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Rosenbaum
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-12-06· cited 113×
• Morgan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-03-06· cited 109×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-01-17· cited 106×
• Whitmore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-07-12· cited 102×
• Franklin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-10-24· cited 86×
• Splawn v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1997-07-30· cited 72×
• King v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-04-10· cited 67×
• Forbes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-07-24· cited 59×
• Culley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-02-13· cited 32×
• Carr v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-05-21· cited 26×
• Springer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-03-18· cited 12×
• Baldwin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-02-14· cited 11×
• Burkhalter v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1982-10-28· cited 11×
• Acosta v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1982-09-08· cited 8×
• Hernandez v. Thaler
  W.D. Texas· 2011-05-13· cited 1×
• Charles Nathan Choate v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1993-05-05
• Gerardo Leyva v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1999-06-17
• Daniel Anders v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-03-02
• State v. Marcus Dewayne Beatty
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2018-02-28
• the State of Texas v. Michael Robert Anthony
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2022-04-29

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Costello v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1956-04-01· cited 1,814×
• Fred M. Ford v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1956-05-22· cited 23×
• Horstman v. Glatt
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1969-01-13· cited 10×
• Pruitt v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-03-01· cited 8×