Ortiz v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a conviction for using an altered plate requires 8 findings that the plate was altered with fraudulent intent and that the defendant used 9 the plate knowing that it was altered with fraudulent intent
• reversible error committed where applicable jury instruction failed to substantially track statutory language and failed to apprise jury' of an essential element
• if instructions fail to apprise jury on essential element of an offense, reversible error has been committed
• if proof of element is essential and court fails to instruct thereon, jurisdictional error occurs and issue could be raised on appeal notwithstanding failure to preserve it
• claim of jurisdictional error supported since element was factually in issue
• claim of jurisdictional error supported since element was factually in issue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Orosco
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1992-01-07· cited 169×
• State v. Osborne
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1991-04-04· cited 149×
• Santillanes v. State
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1993-03-01· cited 142×
• State v. Cawley
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1990-10-02· cited 40×
• State v. Hargrove
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1989-03-21· cited 27×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wooley v. Maynard
  Supreme Court· 1977-04-20· cited 1,253×
• State v. Bell
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1977-03-01· cited 115×
• State v. Gunzelman
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1973-07-06· cited 82×
• State v. Puga
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1973-05-23· cited 34×