Martin v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• error to refuse instruction that defendant has no burden of proof when he raised the defense of accident because Commonwealth has burden to prove killing not an accident
• “[A]lthough the jury may have rejected the theory of accidental killing by finding defendant guilty of murder, because this finding may have resulted from the mistaken belief that the burden was upon the defendant to prove the killing was accidental, the error was prejudicial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• McGhee v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-11-22· cited 137×
• Gaines v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-01-14· cited 95×
• LaDawn Shrieves King v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-04-07· cited 46×
• Walker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-06-17· cited 32×
• Hartigan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-12-28· cited 23×
• Hall v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-06-20· cited 22×
• Helmick v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-08-06· cited 13×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Poindexter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-09-01· cited 30×
• Braxton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1953-10-12· cited 26×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-06-21· cited 23×
• Skinner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-10-11· cited 15×
• Spear v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-03-05· cited 12×