Horton v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Fixing the limits of punishment for crime is a function of the legislature, and unless the punishment specified by statute constitutes cruel and unusual 33 punishment, it will not be disturbed by the judiciary.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Presley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-08-07· cited 56×
• Byrd v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-03-23· cited 29×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-03-28· cited 21×
• Riddle v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-05-05· cited 21×
• Richard D White v. State of MS
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-03-21
• Cedric Carter v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-01-23
• Allen M. Russell a/k/a Russell Allen v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2022-06-16

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Upshaw v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-10-26· cited 46×
• Nix v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-04-16· cited 42×