Jackson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “by the nature of things, one’s intent or purpose, being a state of mind, can seldom be positively known to others, so it ordinarily cannot be shown by direct evidence, but may be inferred from the facts and circumstances shown in evidence”
• noting that “by the nature of things, one’s intent or purpose, being a state of mind, can seldom be positively known to others, so it ordinarily cannot be shown by direct evidence, but may be inferred from the facts and circumstances shown in evidence”
• inferring from circumstantial evidence an intent to terrorize a kidnapping victim
• inferring from circumstantial evidence an intent to terrorize a kidnapping victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Chism v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1993-04-19· cited 47×
• Proctor v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2002-07-05· cited 41×
• Tarentino v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1990-04-02· cited 41×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1987-10-05· cited 6×
• Fairchild v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1991-05-06· cited 4×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2007-01-04· cited 3×
• Mock v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1987-03-04· cited 3×
• Minor Child v. State of Arkansas
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2025-02-12· cited 1×