Cotton v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that when objection is made during bench conference, the complaining party must preserve the record for appeal to avoid being procedurally barred
• explaining that a confession corroborated by “independent proof’ of the “body or substance of the crime” is sufficient to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt
• finding that when objection is made during bench conference, the complaining party must preserve the record for appeal to avoid being procedurally barred
• “Because the defense failed to request that the jury be admonished, the sustaining of the objection was sufficient to prevent reversible error. There is no reversible error where the court did all that it was asked to do.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-12-12· cited 261×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-05-27· cited 178×
• Hobgood v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-03-23· cited 76×
• Hobson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-09-17· cited 59×
• Cox v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-07-17· cited 55×
• Parks v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-09-16· cited 53×
• Rogers v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2012-08-16· cited 44×
• Stephens v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-06-16· cited 43×
• Canadian National/Ill. Cent. R. Co. v. Hall
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-04-12· cited 40×
• McDuff v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-05-04· cited 37×
• Chaupette v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-03-06· cited 36×
• Palmer v. Volkswagen of America, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-04-07· cited 33×
• Simmons v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-04-11· cited 29×
• Scott v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-04-26· cited 26×
• Hopkins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-11-08· cited 25×
• Hodge v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-08-15· cited 24×
• Marbra v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2004-11-02· cited 18×
• Robert Andy Pinter v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2017-06-06· cited 17×
• Windham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-11-27· cited 13×
• Young v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2007-11-06· cited 11×

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Wetz v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-02-25· cited 619×
• Billiot v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 479×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-18· cited 461×
• Conner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-03-17· cited 409×
• Carr v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-02-02· cited 403×
• Caldwell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-11-16· cited 277×
• Russell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-08-12· cited 253×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-07-06· cited 116×
• Wells v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-06-17· cited 101×
• Ashley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-11-03· cited 87×
• Sample v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-09-29· cited 67×
• Frierson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-09-10· cited 55×
• Clanton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-06-05· cited 52×
• Brooks v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1971-01-04· cited 50×
• Heard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1882-04-15· cited 50×
• Whittington v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-03-16· cited 48×
• Mississippi State Highway Com'n v. Gilich
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-08-05· cited 48×
• Eubanks v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-09-29· cited 39×
• Sumrall v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-02-05· cited 30×
• Roberson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-10-24· cited 26×