State v. Vermillion

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding admission of evidence that defendant had a policy on life of his father, the victim, which named defendant’s wife as beneficiary
• holding “it is not necessary to show that the defendant was the beneficiary under a policy of life insurance on the life of the deceased in order to render it relevant and admissible if there is some showing that the defendant would derive some benefit from the proceeds of the policy”
• holding \it is not necessary to show that the defendant was the beneficiary under a policy of life insurance on the life of the deceased in order to render it relevant and admissible if there is some showing that the defendant would derive some benefit from the proceeds of the policy\
• even if defendant is not beneficiary, evidence of life insurance policy admissible if defendant derives a benefit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Douglas
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2006-06-19· cited 102×
• State v. Needs
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-11-23· cited 76×
• State v. Beckham
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-02-22· cited 74×
• State v. Douglas
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2004-05-21· cited 7×
• State v. Hartfield
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1979-02-14· cited 4×
• State v. Hogg
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1981-04-21· cited 1×