Gaines v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• that the failure of the court to give an instruction defining assault was not harmless error
• where instructions read to jury are for a crime different from that which defendant is charged and convicted of, verdict as to that crime is a nullity; error is fundamental requiring reversal even in absence of an objection.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Zwick v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-03-19· cited 20×
• O'BRYAN v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-04-28· cited 14×
• Raford v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-01-17· cited 10×
• D.R. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-08-10· cited 6×
• Timot v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-06-23· cited 3×
• Adams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-10-23· cited 2×
• Abbate v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-10-27· cited 2×
• Torres v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-07-21· cited 1×
• DR v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-08-10
• Horne v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-05-30

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Moore v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-10-30· cited 12×