Oakes v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “[t]he failure to grant a request for a lesser-included offense instruction is reversible error”
• stating that the defendant would be entitled to instruction under § 514.030(1)(a) “only if the jury could reasonably conclude that he committed theft without any physical force”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).