Shifflett v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming conviction for malicious wounding where defendant restrained unarmed victim’s hands behind her back and stabbed her with a knife without provocation
• failure to correct erroneous instruction not reversible error where it is clear from the evidence that the jury could not properly and fairly have returned any verdict other than one of malicious wounding

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• James Edward Williams v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-01-20· cited 67×
• Mason v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-11-01· cited 25×
• Smoot v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-06-28· cited 16×
• Anderson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-09-27· cited 6×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gills v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1925-01-15· cited 15×
• Reliance Life Insurance v. Gulley's Administratrix
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1922-11-16· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Mason
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1941-06-09· cited 4×