Slaughter v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• a criminal trial to an unsworn jury “was, in effect, no more than a trial by mob”
• “[A] conviction by an unsworn jury is a mere nullity . . . .”
• “[A] conviction by an unsworn jury is a mere nullity .. ..”
• “[A] conviction by an unsworn jury is a mere nullity, of which the accused could not, upon a subsequent arraignment, avail himself by a plea of autre fois convict.”
• in criminal cases, “a total failure to swear the jury is a matter which cannot, in any manner or under any circumstances, be waived; and, as a consequence, a conviction by an unsworn jury is a mere nullity”
• \`[T]he fact of swearing [the jurors] must appear on the record'\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

34 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Gilreath v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-30· cited 155×
• People v. Cain
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2015-07-23· cited 149×
• People v. Moon
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2022-04-07· cited 141×
• Gober v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-02· cited 83×
• State v. Hollman
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1958-04-08· cited 48×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-09-28· cited 33×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-10-15· cited 32×
• Culpepper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1974-09-25· cited 28×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-09-11· cited 27×
• State v. Evans
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-04· cited 22×
• State v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1906-11-20· cited 22×
• State v. Vogh
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2002-02-20· cited 20×
• Alston v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-10-03· cited 19×
• Montgomery v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-07-02· cited 19×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-22· cited 15×
• Grant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-13· cited 14×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-01-29· cited 12×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-12-01· cited 10×
• Atkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-01-08· cited 8×
• Grant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-04-08· cited 7×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Spurlock v. Brown
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1892-02-27· cited 35×
• Hunnel v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1882-11-15· cited 25×
• State v. Ice
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1890-11-28· cited 23×
• Hardenburgh v. Crary
  New York Supreme Court· 1857-07-15· cited 9×
• Barney v. People
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1859-04-15· cited 6×
• People ex rel. White v. Erie, C. P.
  New York Supreme Court· 1831-08-04· cited 5×
• Vezain v. People
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1866-04-15· cited 2×