Holloman v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding failure to give self-defense instruction reversible error because 8 one's intent, under the doctrine of transferred intent, carries the lack of criminal intent to the unintended consequences and thus precludes criminal responsibility
• “The general rule is that if a person acting in necessary self-defense unintentionally injures or kills a third person, he is not guilty of homicide or assault and battery.”
• “Under these alleged facts, we nevertheless believe that [defendant’s] testimony required that the jury be instructed on the law of self-defense. The jury’s role is to determine whether [his] intentional acts were self-defense . . . .”
• “[I]f self-defense is justified against the intended victim and would excuse the assault or homicide of that victim, then the assault or homicide of the unintended victim is excused or justified, and no criminal conviction can be obtained.”

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Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Koper
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2018-09-20· cited 244×
• State v. Betts
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2022-07-29· cited 69×
• Duke v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2004-10-25· cited 55×
• Nelson v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2010-12-08· cited 28×
• State v. Bellinger
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2012-06-22· cited 26×
• Iseli v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2007-06-26· cited 19×
• Holloman v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2005-02-28· cited 11×
• Burkhardt v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2005-08-18· cited 6×
• Malaska v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-02-28· cited 6×
• In Re Termination of Parental Rights to CG, SG, JG and SG
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2003-12-23· cited 2×
• Gomez v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2010-08-03
• Commonwealth v. Kenneth Jose Santana-Rodriguez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2025-10-14

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Jackson
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1973-12-18· cited 154×
• Goodman v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1977-12-07· cited 87×
• Best v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1987-05-08· cited 68×
• Bouwkamp v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1992-06-02· cited 67×
• Keser v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1985-09-13· cited 56×
• Blakely v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1970-09-09· cited 48×
• State v. Castillo
  Utah Supreme Court· 1969-07-23· cited 37×
• State v. Peal
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1971-03-08· cited 33×
• People v. Mathews
  California Court of Appeal· 1979-04-17· cited 31×
• Duckett v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1998-09-04· cited 26×
• People v. Morris
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1985-07-12· cited 22×
• Cleghorn v. State
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1972-06-30· cited 21×
• Ellifritz v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1985-08-15· cited 17×
• Coburn v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2001-03-26· cited 15×
• Mewes v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1973-12-26· cited 11×
• McCraney v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1994-03-30· cited 11×
• Duran v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1999-11-19· cited 11×
• Pittman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1954-06-02· cited 6×