Watson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• conviction reversed when indictment merely alleged prior crime was a felony without specifying the exact nature of the felony
• where an indictment charging an alleged prior felon with carrying a concealed weapon was held to be insufficient and fatally defective because it failed to allege with specificity the previous felony conviction of the defendant
• where an indictment charging an alleged prior felon with carrying a concealed weapon was held to be insufficient and fatally defective because it failed to allege with specificity the previous felony conviction of the defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Peterson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-02-22· cited 202×
• Commonwealth v. Stanley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-08-06· cited 93×
• Porter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-08-24· cited 45×
• Washington v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-16· cited 44×
• Richmond v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-12-16· cited 43×
• Lay v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1975-04-14· cited 32×
• Maxie v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-04-13· cited 26×
• Caston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2007-02-13· cited 18×
• Bell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-03-08· cited 12×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2002-04-16· cited 8×
• Usry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-12-19· cited 8×
• Ard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1981-09-23· cited 7×
• Vanwey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2013-08-13· cited 4×
• Franklin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2000-05-23· cited 3×
• Niles Maxey Peterson v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-05-22
• Robert Richmond v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-17
• Hatten v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2006-09-26

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Ashcraft
  California Court of Appeal· 1956-01-30· cited 18×
• Meyer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1967-01-16· cited 9×
• Sisk v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1972-04-03· cited 6×
• Tipler v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1880-04-15· cited 3×
• Morgan v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-03-18· cited 1×