Colston v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• conviction of robbery of store owner does not bar conviction for murder of cashier where murder was committed during course of robbery
• robbery and murder different both in law and fact

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

21 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1985-06-11· cited 145×
• Ex Parte Godbolt
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1987-05-15· cited 46×
• Connolly v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1988-11-10· cited 43×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1982-11-23· cited 38×
• Bolden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1990-03-02· cited 30×
• Duncan v. City of Birmingham
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1980-06-17· cited 25×
• Sears v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1985-11-26· cited 23×
• Daniels v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1979-08-21· cited 23×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-03-16· cited 21×
• Clift v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1977-09-09· cited 19×
• Phillips v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-05-28· cited 18×
• Beckley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1978-04-18· cited 11×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1978-12-19· cited 11×
• Andrews v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1979-02-20· cited 10×
• Richmond v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1983-07-05· cited 7×
• Bibb v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1977-09-09· cited 6×
• Myers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1986-11-12· cited 5×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1980-05-27· cited 4×
• Ray v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1985-10-22· cited 4×
• Calhoun v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-05-28· cited 1×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ashe v. Swenson
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-20· cited 4,277×
• Wildman v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1963-05-14· cited 61×
• Zuck v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1975-10-01· cited 43×
• Colston v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1975-11-04· cited 42×
• Racine v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1973-11-29· cited 40×
• Wildman v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1964-01-30· cited 28×
• Yelton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1975-05-06· cited 21×
• Yelton v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1975-09-25· cited 15×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1973-05-15· cited 11×
• Burress v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1975-11-04· cited 10×
• Colston v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1976-08-31· cited 3×