Toler v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that learning that the deceased had seduced and sexually assaulted defendant’s daughter warranted a voluntary manslaughter instruction
• father adequately provoked where he killed a close family friend after learning that his friend had coaxed the father’s 15-year-old daughter into drinking whiskey so he could sexually abuse the child in a field near father’s home
• father adequately provoked where he killed a close family friend after learning that his friend had coaxed the father’s 15-year-old daughter into drinking whiskey so he could sexually abuse the child in a field near father’s home
• father adequately provoked where he killed a close family friend after learning that his friend had coaxed the father’s 15-year-old daughter into drinking whiskey so he could sexually abuse the child in a field near father’s home

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Baxter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1973-05-11· cited 80×
• Davis v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1930-05-24· cited 35×
• State v. Estes
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1983-03-28· cited 28×
• Whitsett v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1957-02-08· cited 22×
• State v. Thornton
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1987-05-04· cited 21×
• State v. Jones
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1965-09-08· cited 5×
• Chaffin v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1962-03-07· cited 5×
• High v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2009-06-04· cited 2×
• People v. Calhoun
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2010-09-10
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-07-09

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McCarty v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1903-01-28· cited 14×
• State v. Agnesi
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1918-06-17· cited 11×
• People of the Territory v. Halliday
  Utah Supreme Court· 1888-01-15· cited 5×
• State v. Harrigan
  Delaware Court of Oyer and Terminer· 1881-12-09· cited 3×