Springer v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “‘there is no definition of reasonable or ordinary care that encompasses the circumstance of an uninvited person seeking confrontation in the occupied residence of another person, while wielding a loaded, cocked weapon without the safety mechanism engaged’”
• “Defendant’s negligence argument is simply a statement that the State failed to prove that he was reckless. No additional instruction to the jury on this point was required.”
• upon review of a refusal to give a tendered instruction, we consider “whether there is evidence in the record to support the giving of the instruction”
• defen- dant’s substantial rights were not prejudiced by the lack of an accident instruction
• “Negligence, as used by Defendant here, is an argument not a legal defense.”
• “[The Court] reasoned that ‘were the jury to decide that the shooting was a result of an accident, there is no question that the jury could not find that he was reckless.’ We adopt the opinion of the Court of Appeals on this point.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rich v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2008-07-16· cited 143×
• Michael Charlton v. Cecil Davis, Superintendent of the Indiana State Prison
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-02-28· cited 123×
• Bowman Ex Rel. Bowman v. McNary
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-08-31· cited 24×
• Snell v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-05-18· cited 23×
• Davis v. Garrett
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2008-02-15· cited 16×
• Bell v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-01-20· cited 4×
• Jimmy Person v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-02-07· cited 1×
• Adrienne Tyler v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-06-18
• Charlton, Michael v. Davis, Cecil
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-02-28
• Albert L. Armstrong v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-04-18
• Theressa Jones v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-03-27
• Leslie Michelle New v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-10-31
• Alyssa Leigh Shepherd v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2020-09-14
• Lewis v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2021-12-02
• B K v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2024-06-18
• Melvin Lee Weaver v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2025-04-10
• Sobirjon Rakhimov v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2025-04-29

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wilson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-03-31· cited 74×
• Henson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2003-04-14· cited 65×
• Beeman v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1953-12-11· cited 59×
• Hedrick v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1951-05-23· cited 35×
• Taylor v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1983-12-19· cited 28×
• Warner v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-08-29· cited 24×
• Roach v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-05-24· cited 22×
• Rickner v. Haller
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1954-01-12· cited 21×
• Cichos v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1962-07-02· cited 17×
• Forte v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-12-11· cited 16×
• Dayhuff v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1989-11-06· cited 15×
• Young v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1974-09-19· cited 12×
• Sipp v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1987-10-27· cited 11×
• State v. Schell
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1967-03-10· cited 9×
• Taylor v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1994-01-31· cited 7×
• Springer v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-12-03· cited 5×