Tapscott v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “As [the petitioner] correctly notes, criminal statutes must be strictly construed in favor of the defendant”
• language and history of statute resolved ambiguity and thus, rule of lenity was not applicable
• delay of seven months and a few days is not of constitutional dimension

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).