Jefferson 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 guilty plea waives all defects in an indictment with the exception of (1) the failure of the indictment to charge a criminal offense or, more specifically, to charge an essential element of a criminal offense and (2) subject matter jurisdiction
• noting that a court that has jurisdiction to adjudge the defendant guilty of the charges in his indictment certainly has “jurisdiction to accept his guilty plea, adjudge him guilty, and impose sentence”
• noting the essential-elements exception to the general rule that guilty pleas waive defects in the indictment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

160 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ross v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-04-26· cited 361×
• Taylor v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-10-03· cited 276×
• Anderson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-04-03· cited 139×
• Bishop v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-02-14· cited 135×
• Hannah v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-10-19· cited 121×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-03-26· cited 107×
• Drennan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-06-05· cited 86×
• Metheny v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-07-24· cited 81×
• Banana v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-03-31· cited 81×
• Lanier v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-03-31· cited 79×
• Brandau v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-09-28· cited 75×
• Fulgham v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-10-28· cited 70×
• Conerly v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-08-26· cited 64×
• Fuselier v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-04-20· cited 64×
• Joiner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2011-05-19· cited 48×
• Robert Carson v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2016-11-17· cited 42×
• Hye v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2015-02-05· cited 41×
• King v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-06-10· cited 37×
• Holmes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-05-11· cited 32×
• Harris v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-03-02· cited 31×

Cites

38 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Powell v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1932-11-07· cited 4,979×
• Neal v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-05-23· cited 666×
• Evans v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-11-03· cited 310×
• Gray v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-09-26· cited 269×
• Harper v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-16· cited 182×
• Lee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-05-29· cited 146×
• Sanders v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-09-21· cited 115×
• Griffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-26· cited 87×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-29· cited 86×
• McGowan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-03-22· cited 85×
• Phillips v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-10-27· cited 77×
• Perkins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-02-19· cited 75×
• Gangl v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-02-09· cited 72×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-08-19· cited 64×
• Whitehurst v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-03-01· cited 64×
• Callahan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-08-18· cited 56×
• Edwards v. Thigpen
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-03-23· cited 48×
• Hailey v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-12-07· cited 46×
• Moore v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-06-03· cited 40×
• Houston v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-12-12· cited 30×