Pope 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, in order to validly charge the offense of interfering with a police officer, an indictment must recite facts respecting the lawfulness of the officer’s acts, the official character of the officer, and the nature of the resistance
• “An arrest is a continuing process from the time one is apprehended until he is placed in jail”
• Common law offense of interfering with an officer while performing his duties is a misdemeanor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Tillett v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1981-12-11· cited 20×
• State v. Vick
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2007-06-26· cited 18×
• State v. Dowd
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1991-11-12· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Adams
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-06-27· cited 12×
• Sesson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1978-01-24· cited 7×
• Christian J. Garza v. The State of Wyoming
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2020-03-04· cited 6×
• Mellons v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1977-12-05· cited 5×
• State v. Mallett
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1976-10-12· cited 4×
• Murrell v. Government of the Virgin Islands
  Virgin Islands· 2009-06-26· cited 1×
• State of Tennessee v. Jasper L. Vick
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2006-03-22
• State of Tennessee v. Kenneth D. Melton
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2000-08-04
• State of Tennessee v. Darius Henderson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2022-03-04

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Thompson v. City of Louisville
  Supreme Court· 1960-03-21· cited 801×
• McBee v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1963-09-11· cited 349×
• Turner v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1949-03-11· cited 73×
• Hardin v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1962-03-07· cited 59×
• Harper v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1960-04-06· cited 40×
• Wheeler v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1967-04-21· cited 24×
• Cook v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1973-12-27· cited 21×
• Mendolia v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1951-07-27· cited 19×
• State v. Hughes
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1963-10-11· cited 18×
• Staggs v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1962-05-04· cited 8×
• McLemore v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1965-01-06· cited 3×
• McGhee v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1970-07-07· cited 2×
• State v. Odam
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1879-04-15· cited 2×
• State v. Wright
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1932-02-13· cited 1×
• Maverty v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1882-12-15· cited 1×
• Goff v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1948-02-28· cited 1×