Henderson 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 “an instruction on either party’s failure to call a witness in criminal cases should not be given”
• rejecting missing witness instruction on ground that it “placets] too much emphasis on such permissible inference and tend[s] to cause juries to decide cases on the lack of testimony rather than direct testimony”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Malave
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1999-09-21· cited 89×
• Howard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-09-28· cited 44×
• Ervin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-04-13· cited 32×
• State v. Tahair
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2001-03-02· cited 24×
• Lee v. MGM Resorts Mississippi, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2016-02-09· cited 5×
• Eddie Lee Howard, Jr. v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-05-25

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Armstrong v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1968-10-07· cited 76×
• Hannah v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-09-14· cited 52×
• State v. Hammond
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1978-03-13· cited 32×
• Grady v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-02-26· cited 29×
• Pryor v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-09-21· cited 16×
• Phillips v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1966-03-14· cited 15×
• Bunckley v. Jones
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1901-03-15· cited 11×
• United States v. Shelton Peterson
  Seventh Circuit· 1970-06-08· cited 9×
• Fuller v. Sloan
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1970-01-19· cited 3×