State v. Jeffers

How courts have described this case

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

• “Where a trial court gives, over objection, an instruction which incompletely states the law, and the defect is not corrected by a later instruction, the giving of such incomplete instruction constitutes reversible error where the omission involves an element of the crime.”

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Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. England
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1988-09-16· cited 116×
• State v. Barker
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1986-06-27· cited 26×
• State v. Vollmer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-11-13· cited 24×
• State v. Miller
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1990-12-19· cited 19×
• State v. Walker
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1989-05-19· cited 2×
• State of West Virginia v. John Henry Hoyle
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2019-11-22
• State v. Crouch
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2012-05-24

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Dye v. Skeen
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1950-12-12· cited 71×
• State v. Harlow
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1952-06-24· cited 37×
• Stamper v. Bannister
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1961-02-14· cited 24×