Murray v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing an aggravated assault conviction where, during a prison escape attempt, the defendant threatened a correctional officer by holding a shank to the officer's throat but then allowed a fellow inmate to convince him to abandon his endeavor
• reversing an aggravated assault conviction where, during a prison escape attempt, the defendant threatened a correctional officer by holding a shank to the officer’s throat but then allowed a fellow inmate to convince him to abandon his endeavor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-05-29· cited 146×
• Burney v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-18· cited 72×
• West v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-09-28· cited 37×
• Craig v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-02-03· cited 27×
• Pruitt v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-07-13· cited 19×
• Gibson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-07-20· cited 18×
• Robinson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-05· cited 15×
• Durr v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-03-14· cited 15×
• Genry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2000-09-12· cited 13×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-03-10· cited 12×
• In Interest of R.T.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-02-10· cited 11×
• Stallworth v. Dept. of Public Safety
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-05-22· cited 8×
• Calvin Hunter v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2015-11-24· cited 8×
• Carter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2006-01-31· cited 4×
• Jeffery A. Stallworth v. Mississippi Department of Public Safety
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-11-17
• Joanie Tiachella Calloway v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2019-03-05
• Jerome Davis a/k/a Jerome Kenmar Davis v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2025-06-10
• Carlos Jones, Jr. v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2025-10-30

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bucklew v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1968-01-22· cited 65×
• Hydrick v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1963-03-04· cited 32×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1950-11-13· cited 16×
• Miller v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1922-09-15· cited 16×
• Thompson v. Krutzer
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1912-10-15· cited 8×
• Powell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1921-10-15· cited 6×
• Wiggington v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1924-12-01· cited 5×