Matthews v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that defendant need not personally touch another person because battery may be committed by the unlawful touching by defendant or by any other substance put in motion by defendant
• holding intent to touch satisfied where defendant -fired- bullets at officer
• upholding conviction for attempted battery despite contention that defendant sought only to escape from police officers when he fired shots
• “While battery requires defendant to have intended to touch another person, defendant need not personally touch another person since battery may be committed by the unlawful touching by defendant or by any other substance put in motion by defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rutherford v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-05-25· cited 605×
• Stewart v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-05-25· cited 223×
• Gregory v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-06-29· cited 89×
• Henderson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-03-09· cited 28×
• Straub v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1991-02-27· cited 28×
• Kuchel v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1991-04-30· cited 15×
• Miller v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2000-03-31· cited 12×
• Fisher v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-07-26· cited 7×
• Stroud v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-04-30· cited 5×
• Martin v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1999-07-22· cited 3×
• Richeson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1997-10-29· cited 2×
• Robert M. Keeton v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-04-19
• Robert A. Johnson, Jr. v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-07-27
• Willie L. Amos v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-03-06
• Nashid Muhammad v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2020-08-25

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lindsey v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1973-05-11· cited 124×
• Stevens v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1976-09-24· cited 65×
• Lewis v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1981-07-31· cited 65×
• Chambers v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1981-07-08· cited 38×
• Norris v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1981-04-16· cited 37×
• Smith v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1984-12-20· cited 34×
• Green v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1973-12-27· cited 31×
• Galmore v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1984-08-24· cited 22×
• Deneal v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1984-10-09· cited 16×
• Reed v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1970-11-30· cited 10×
• Parker v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1981-07-30· cited 9×
• Lowry v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1982-10-27· cited 3×
• Pacheco v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1983-01-27· cited 3×