State v. Morris

How courts have described this case

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

• holding defendant not entitled to involuntary manslaughter charge because the act must be unintentional and defendant intentionally fired the gun
• holding the trial court properly denied an involuntary manslaughter charge where the evidence showed the defendant intentionally pulled his pistol and fired at the victim
• stating under involuntary manslaughter the act must be unintentional and defendant had intentionally shot his gun although he claimed self-defense
• under involuntary manslaughter 'the act must be unintentional and defendant had intentionally shot his gun although he claimed self-defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. George
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1996-09-03· cited 98×
• State v. Carlson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2005-02-22· cited 49×
• State v. Pickens
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1996-01-22· cited 46×
• State v. Gibson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2010-09-29· cited 32×
• State v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1996-11-25· cited 31×
• Douglas v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-08-10· cited 23×
• State v. Moyd
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1996-03-04· cited 19×
• Sullivan v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2014-01-29· cited 4×
• State v. Davis
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-06-28· cited 2×
• State v. Bonilla
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2019-12-11
• State v. Murray
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2013-06-26

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Rochester
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1990-04-02· cited 90×
• Casey v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1991-09-09· cited 51×
• State v. Atchison
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1977-05-23· cited 41×
• State v. Funchess
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1976-10-18· cited 36×
• State v. Gandy
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1984-12-13· cited 32×
• State v. Hale
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1985-02-07· cited 21×
• Campbell v. Bi-Lo, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1990-04-16· cited 14×
• McElveen v. Ferre
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1989-07-31· cited 13×
• State v. Laster
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1973-12-05· cited 5×
• Cartee v. Lesley
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1985-07-01· cited 5×