Smith 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 that the State bears burden of disproving the defense of abandonment beyond a reasonable doubt if the evidence supports the defense
• finding sufficient evidence to disprove voluntariness when the jury could infer from a tree branch snapping that the defendant abandoned his attack due to fear of a victim’s escape
• recognizing attempt and conspiracy as “inchoate crimes”
• “Indiana Code § 35-41-3-10 makes abandonment a legal defense to several inchoate crimes including conspiracy and attempt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Munford v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2010-03-10· cited 64×
• Gravens v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-11-03· cited 52×
• Patterson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2000-06-14· cited 16×
• Weida v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-11-21· cited 13×
• Destin Jones v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2017-12-19· cited 8×
• Estep v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1999-09-29· cited 6×
• Kenyatta Erkins and Ugbe Ojile v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2013-04-23· cited 2×
• Destin Dean Jones v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-04-12· cited 1×