Givens v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the confessions of the principal “were competent” in the trial of a defendant for being an accessory before the fact, “not to fix guilt on [the defendant], but to show the guilt of [the principal] and the grade of his offense”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State of Kansas v. Roberts
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1915-04-10· cited 46×
• Williams v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 1925-02-03· cited 45×
• Jones v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1960-02-05· cited 36×
• State v. Mann
  Washington Supreme Court· 1905-07-10· cited 26×
• Jordan v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1928-03-03· cited 23×
• Ewing v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 1917-02-15· cited 20×
• State of Tenn. v. Cornellison
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1933-04-08· cited 18×
• Russell v. Houston
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1905-09-15· cited 2×
• State of Tennessee v. Ronald Eugene Rickman and William Edward Groseclose
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2002-05-17
• State v. John Farner
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2000-06-30

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• DeBerry v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1897-06-12· cited 8×