Gray v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• contemporaneous objection during prosecution's closing argument must be made or it is deemed waived
• “The defendant who fails to make a contemporaneous objection must rely on plain error to raise the assignment on appeal.”
• \defendant who fails to make a contemporaneous objection must rely on plain error to raise the assignment on appeal\
• \defendant who fails to make a contemporaneous objection must rely on plain error to raise the assignment on appeal\
• “Contemporaneous objections to allegedly erroneous comments of the prosecuting attorney in closing arguments must be made or the point is waived.”
• when instructions are read together, no error can be predicated on failure of one instruction to set out properly a necessary element of the crime, where the element was included correctly in other instructions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Wetz v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-02-25· cited 619×
• Foster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-04-28· cited 467×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-06-08· cited 393×
• Griffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-02-14· cited 375×
• Cole v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-29· cited 352×
• Lanier v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-11-02· cited 330×
• Nixon v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-25· cited 322×
• Hunter v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-12-05· cited 307×
• West v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-10-04· cited 295×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-05-09· cited 275×
• McGilberry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-06-03· cited 242×
• Flowers v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-12-21· cited 222×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-10· cited 219×
• Walker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-03-31· cited 215×
• Spicer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-01-05· cited 184×
• Milano v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-04-26· cited 170×
• Flowers v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-04-03· cited 164×
• Handley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-27· cited 147×
• Roberson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-02-26· cited 125×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-07-06· cited 116×

Cites

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

• Billiot v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 479×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-18· cited 461×
• Cabello v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-05-01· cited 348×
• Reddix v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-02-13· cited 283×
• Box v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-08-24· cited 275×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-09-04· cited 202×
• Gavin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-07-31· cited 194×
• Morris v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-09-07· cited 85×
• Clemons v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1975-10-13· cited 75×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-12-08· cited 74×
• Griffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-11-13· cited 69×
• McCray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-03-26· cited 67×
• Norman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-05-21· cited 66×
• Henry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-02-26· cited 65×
• Hickson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-06-05· cited 65×
• Baker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-02-10· cited 61×
• Nations v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-11-20· cited 54×
• Foster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-02-26· cited 53×
• McLelland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1967-11-20· cited 52×
• Norman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-03-19· cited 46×