Riley v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[W]hen two or more persons are confederated for the purpose of murdering another, and in furtherance of such common design such person is killed by one of the conspirators, the killing was the act of each regardless of which inflicted the mortal wound.”
• “[W]hen two or more persons are confederated for the purpose of murdering another, and in furtherance of such common design such person is killed by one of the conspirators, the killing was the act of each regardless of which inflicted the mortal wound.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Armstrong v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1968-10-07· cited 76×
• Norman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-03-19· cited 46×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-03-12· cited 38×
• Black v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 23×
• Holmes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-10-25· cited 19×
• Graham v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-06-13· cited 19×
• Moore v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1970-07-02· cited 17×
• White v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-04-27· cited 10×
• Robinson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-08-11· cited 9×
• Summerall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2010-06-08· cited 9×
• Lee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-12-09· cited 7×
• Kendall v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1971-06-18· cited 7×
• Walters v. Rogers
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1954-11-08· cited 7×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1962-02-05· cited 6×
• Daniels v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-04-08· cited 4×
• Brian Lee v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-11-10
• Willie James Holmes v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-02-10
• Natasha Graham v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2012-04-20
• Nathan Lollis v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2023-11-16

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hurd v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1924-12-15· cited 17×
• Bond v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1922-03-15· cited 4×
• West v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1902-03-15· cited 2×