Pugh v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• following the holding in United States v. Diaz , 585 F.2d 116 (5th Cir. 1978)
• Pugh's credibility was at issue, and the jury should have been instructed that his prior convictions were only to be considered for the purpose of attacking his credibility
• trial court should, sua sponte, provide limiting instruction that prior convictions are to be considered only for purpose of attacking defendant's credibility where prior convictions offered are identical to charge on which defendant is currently being tried
• trial court should, sua sponte, provide limiting instruction that prior convictions are to be considered only for purpose of attacking defendant's credibility where prior convictions offered are identical to charge on which defendant is currently being tried

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Giles v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-02-02· cited 255×
• Kolberg v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-08-29· cited 115×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-05-11· cited 114×
• Ex Parte Minor
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2000-06-02· cited 76×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-12-07· cited 43×
• Bogard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-09-16· cited 37×
• McLemore v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-02-05· cited 32×
• White v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-03-01· cited 30×
• Townsend v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-08-05· cited 26×
• Robinson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-03-25· cited 26×
• Henton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-12-16· cited 19×
• Jones v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-11-26· cited 7×
• Marvin Lewis Jones v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-02-17
• Kenyatta Henton v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-11-10
• Jeremiah Oatis Robinson v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-09-25
• Walter White v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-03-05
• Bryan Kolberg v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-03-12

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Peterson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-12-16· cited 171×
• United States v. Albert Solomon Preston, Jr.
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-12-20· cited 94×
• McInnis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-05-04· cited 45×
• McGee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-10-24· cited 44×
• United States v. Demasco Ramon Diaz, A/K/A Pipo
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-11-30· cited 28×
• Murphy v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-08-03· cited 17×
• Simpson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-11-15· cited 12×
• Simmons v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-05-24· cited 3×