Harvey v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• “It has been uniformly held by this court that one accused of a crime may introduce evidence tending to prove that the crime was committed by another, subject, however, to the right of the commonwealth to rebut such evidence.”
• evidence that brother-in-law of the deceased actually fired the fatal shot

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Beaty v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2003-10-23· cited 97×
• Davenport v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-10-20· cited 53×
• Harris v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-05-20· cited 23×
• McDaniels v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1952-05-30· cited 2×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Tompkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1903-12-16· cited 18×
• Kelly v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1935-06-07· cited 15×
• Etly v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1908-12-02· cited 9×
• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1912-02-15· cited 9×
• Lindon v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1935-02-12· cited 6×