Puckett 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 evidence of presence of marijuana plants on property Puckett jointly owned with his wife was not sufficient to create rational inference that Puckett was in possession of the marijuana
• holding evidence of marijuana plants on premises defendant owned with his wife insufficient where marijuana plants were grown in an “uncultivated” area and there was a “total absence of evidence of [the defendant’s] involvement”
• holding evidence of presence of marijuana plants on property Puckett jointly owned with his wife was not sufficient to create rational inference that Puckett was 28 in possession of the marijuana
• husband who was often away from home acquitted where wife grew 16 marijuana plants in backyard
• husband who was often away from home acquitted where wife grew 16 marijuana plants in backyard
• “Ownership and exclusive possession of property may in some circumstances be sufficient to create a rational inference that the owner was in possession of a prohibited substance growing thereon”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Brown
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1979-07-24· cited 146×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-07-29· cited 87×
• State v. Lowe
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1978-11-27· cited 16×
• Crafts v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1983-05-31· cited 15×
• Everhart v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1974-02-13· cited 12×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1973-07-03· cited 11×
• Barksdale v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1972-06-06· cited 9×
• Huckabaa v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1985-04-09· cited 7×
• Moye v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-07-09· cited 5×
• Ertwine v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1973-08-13· cited 3×
• Crowley v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-04-03· cited 3×
• Moseley v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2020-04-08· cited 2×
• Lander v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1989-05-26· cited 1×
• Chandanais v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2007-03-06

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ungar v. Sarafite
  Supreme Court· 1964-05-04· cited 1,845×
• Baker v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1969-02-19· cited 41×
• Walter v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-06-17· cited 26×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1969-02-11· cited 19×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1970-03-03· cited 17×
• Propst v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-08-19· cited 16×