Kragness v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing conviction for failure to instruct on lesser included offense of voluntary manslaughter
• appellate courts are not in position to malee credibility determinations
• defendant “entitled to instructions on the law applicable to his defense theory if there was evidence to support that theory, as long as the evidence when viewed in the light most favorable to him was sufficient to justify a rational factfinder finding in accordance with that theory”
• appellate courts do not make witness credibility determinations
• finding voluntary manslaughter instruction warranted reversal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).