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State v. Mays

Citations

  • 395 P.2d 719
  • 96 Ariz. 366
  • 1964 Ariz. LEXIS 303

How courts have described this case

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

  • applying the mailbox rale to show notice of a closed bank account to support a conviction of drawing checks with the intent to defraud
  • applying the mailbox rule to show notice of a closed bank account to support a conviction of drawing checks with the intent to defraud
  • stating that “[i]t is the settled law of this state that there is a strong presumption that a letter properly addressed,, stamped .and deposited in the United States mail will reach the addressee” and noting that Hagner provides “ample support” for the rule “in the criminal law”
  • “there is a strong presumption that a letter properly addressed, stamped and deposited in the United States mail will reach the addressee”
  • “If counsel did not understand the court’s ruling, the failure to specify distinctly is not error where no request is made to be more specific.”
  • we may conclude the superior court erred in failing to rule only after an attorney insisted a ruling be made and the court subsequently “failed or refused to make one, or . . . made a ruling [which] . . . was erroneous”

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Judges: Struckmeyer, Bernstein, Scruggs

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