Meshell v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding the issue of justifiable self-defense is a question of weight and credibility of the evidence to be decided by the jury
• upholding conviction where blows administered by defendant caused victim to strike his head on the concrete, even though the victim’s family had him discharged from the hospital against medical advice
• “[T]he jury is the judge of the weight and credibility of testimony and is free to accept or reject all or some of the testimony given by 14 each witness.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Green v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-01-20· cited 131×
• Moawad v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-09-14· cited 94×
• Wade v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-10-21· cited 67×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-06-22· cited 50×
• James C. Newell, Jr. v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2015-10-08· cited 44×
• Fairman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-16· cited 39×
• Graham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2002-04-02· cited 26×
• Doolie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2003-07-15· cited 21×
• Wade v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1998-12-18· cited 19×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2011-06-14· cited 18×
• Vince v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2003-04-29· cited 17×
• Sanders v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-05-15· cited 16×
• Dubose v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-06-02· cited 11×
• McINTOSH v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-09-21· cited 10×
• Ellis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2003-05-20· cited 10×
• Verner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2002-04-02· cited 10×
• Caldwell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2009-02-19· cited 9×
• Chambers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2007-10-09· cited 8×
• Wooten v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-02-06· cited 8×
• Reeves v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2002-08-27· cited 8×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Fairchild v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-11-07· cited 201×
• Pittman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-07-15· cited 70×
• Fairley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-02-13· cited 52×
• Haymond v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-09· cited 50×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-06-12· cited 38×
• Arteigapiloto v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-10-15· cited 29×
• Alston v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1972-02-07· cited 29×
• Talbert v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-05-11· cited 17×
• Rucker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1963-12-09· cited 12×
• Penton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1959-09-02· cited 11×
• Hopper v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1951-08-10· cited 11×
• Land v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1963-07-31· cited 8×
• Dooley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1960-01-11· cited 8×
• State v. Johnson
  Delaware Court of Oyer and Terminer· 1934-11-27· cited 7×
• Coachman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1959-08-11· cited 5×
• Duke v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1962-04-02· cited 2×