Leon 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 “[b]ecause it is possible to attempt murder without touching the intended victim, battery is not inherently a lesser included offense of attempted murder
• holding that evidence that defendant discharged a weapon in the direction of the victim was substantial evidence from which the jury could infer the intent to kill sufficient to support a conviction for attempted murder
• “Discharging a weapon in the direction of a victim is substantial evidence from which the jury could infer intent to kill.”
• battery by means of a deadly weapon is a lesser included offense of attempted murder where the charging information alleged infliction of a wound

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Perez v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-08-24· cited 101×
• Wilson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-07-17· cited 83×
• Ellis v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-10-18· cited 81×
• Joseph Fuentes v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2014-05-30· cited 59×
• Corbin v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-01-17· cited 35×
• Cohen v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1999-08-05· cited 27×
• Meriweather v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1995-11-30· cited 23×
• True v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2011-10-13· cited 22×
• Shelton v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1992-11-13· cited 19×
• Noble v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-03-24· cited 17×
• Hughett v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1990-08-08· cited 15×
• Porter v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1996-09-30· cited 8×
• Wright v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1994-12-06· cited 8×
• Lynch v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1990-04-12· cited 7×
• Stringer v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1998-01-30· cited 6×
• Chinda v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-08-27· cited 2×
• Loren David Gary v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-05-09· cited 2×
• Alain Kiiwon Powell, Jr. v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-06-28· cited 1×
• Robert L. Walp v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-06-03
• Robert Griffin v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-10-07

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Rhinehardt v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1985-04-30· cited 64×
• Malott v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1985-12-03· cited 52×
• Jones v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1988-03-08· cited 24×