Crawford v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the indictment must give the accused notice of the nature and character of the offense charged so that he can make his defense and that the indictment was substantially in the form suggested by the Rules of Court
• holding that the indictment must give the accused notice of the nature and character of the offense charged so that he can make his defense and that the indictment was substantially in the form suggested by the Rules of Court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Alger v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-11-22· cited 56×
• Hairston v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-05-06· cited 50×
• Clay v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-07-27· cited 30×
• Garland v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-07-26· cited 20×
• Tibbs v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-03-07· cited 17×
• Person v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-03-13· cited 12×
• Jetton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-05· cited 9×
• Dalton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-05-19· cited 7×
• Waters v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-02-02· cited 5×
• Clay v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-12-15

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Butts v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1926-06-17· cited 117×
• Falden v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1937-01-14· cited 82×
• Durham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-08-30· cited 80×
• Wilder v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-06-11· cited 53×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-01-20· cited 16×