Lynch 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 “the lesser included instruction [on involuntary manslaughter] will be warranted only if there is a serious evidentiary dispute about what [defendant] intended to do — kill or batter”
• holding that involuntary manslaughter was a factually lesser included offense of murder where the killing was obviously accomplished with a touching, i.e., defendant \battered\ victim with a shooting
• concluding that there was a serious evidentia-ry dispute concerning whether the defendant intended to batter or to kill his father where the defendant fired one shot at his father, which entered his arm, and called police immediately after the shooting
• noting \Involuntary manslaughter ... contemplates an incidental killing that occurs during a battery\
• involuntary manslaughter was lesser included offense of murder charge where killing was obviously accomplished with a touching, i.e., defendant \battered\ victim with a shooting
• jury should have been instructed on involuntary manslaughter where fatal gunshot initially entered victim through the arm and the defendant testified that he intended only to injure the victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Fisher v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2004-06-17· cited 377×
• Broome v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1997-11-14· cited 354×
• Wright v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-11-17· cited 328×
• Wilson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-07-17· cited 83×
• McEwen v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-04-30· cited 77×
• Champlain v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-06-13· cited 71×
• Heavrin v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1996-12-31· cited 66×
• Evans v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-05-04· cited 62×
• Dearman v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-03-09· cited 47×
• Griffin v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1994-12-16· cited 45×
• Chanley v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1991-12-20· cited 37×
• Hill v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1993-06-09· cited 32×
• Lynch v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1994-03-24· cited 25×
• Meriweather v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1995-11-30· cited 23×
• Aschliman v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1992-04-14· cited 23×
• Brown v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1995-12-29· cited 22×
• Noble v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-03-24· cited 17×
• Castro v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1991-10-28· cited 14×
• Simpson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1994-01-20· cited 13×
• Johnson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2011-12-29· cited 13×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Roddy v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1979-09-20· cited 112×
• Jones v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1982-08-19· cited 87×
• Ingram v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-12-14· cited 78×
• Swafford v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1981-05-28· cited 50×
• Whipple v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1988-06-08· cited 43×
• Jones v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1988-03-08· cited 24×
• Elliott v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1988-09-22· cited 13×
• Lynch v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1990-04-12· cited 7×