Perkins 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 it was reversible error for the trial court to allow the jury to view the victim’s scars once deliberations had begun
• reopening after case submitted to jury permitted only where “a cogent reason [is] found to exist which demands reopening in order that justice be done”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sturdivant v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-07-22· cited 37×
• State v. Sandler
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1985-10-30· cited 28×
• Dyson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-12-04· cited 23×
• Lee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-05-14· cited 7×
• Caver v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-04-30· cited 4×
• Pulliam v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2003-04-08· cited 3×
• Shields v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-08-03· cited 2×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2004-05-11· cited 1×
• Henry Sturdivant, Jr. v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-05-08
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2016-12-16
• Daryl Fitzgerald Johnson a/k/a Daryl F. Johnson a/k/a Daryl Johnson v. State of Mississippi;
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2020-03-24

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lee v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1948-01-19· cited 82×
• Riley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1963-11-04· cited 22×