Stokes v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding “unlawful touching” element of battery established by evidence that defendant fired gun and that bullet perforated victim’s necktie, creasing victim’s shirt
• where defendant fired gun, bullet perforated victim’s necktie and creased victim’s shirt, defendant’s action constituted battery
• the victim’s tie was burned by gunpowder and his shirt was creased by a bullet from the defendant’s gun
• bullet perforating victim’s tie and creasing victim’s shirt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Impson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2000-01-06· cited 49×
• State v. Ortega
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1992-01-14· cited 33×
• State v. Wynn
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2001-04-05· cited 29×
• K.D. v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-08-23· cited 29×
• State v. Townsend
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1993-12-28· cited 27×
• Thomas v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1970-09-08· cited 21×
• Taylor, Bryant v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1956-01-18· cited 20×
• People v. B.L.
  California Court of Appeal· 2015-08-31· cited 11×
• Malczewski v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-01-25· cited 10×
• Reed v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1970-11-30· cited 10×
• McCormick v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1955-06-14· cited 7×
• KD v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-08-23
• D.S. v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-10-29
• Jennifer Janetsky v. County of Saginaw
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2025-07-25

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Butler v. Stockdale
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1902-01-21· cited 9×