Wiggins 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 that there was no basis for giving a charge on criminally negligent homicide where the appellant testified that he pulled a gun merely to 'scare off' the victim and that the gun discharged by accident during a struggle
• holding that there was no basis for giving a charge on criminally negligent homicide where the appellant testified that he pulled a gun merely to \scare off\ the victim and that the gun discharged by accident during a struggle

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

41 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hyde v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1998-01-30· cited 160×
• Holladay v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1988-09-20· cited 139×
• Whitehead v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1999-08-27· cited 84×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1987-05-12· cited 77×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1987-06-30· cited 73×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1987-04-14· cited 60×
• Fisher v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1991-03-01· cited 53×
• MacEwan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1997-02-28· cited 51×
• Blackmon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2006-08-25· cited 48×
• Burgess v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1998-12-18· cited 40×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1987-04-14· cited 32×
• Rogers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2001-09-28· cited 29×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1996-01-19· cited 28×
• Molton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1994-02-11· cited 26×
• Yeomans v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-12-03· cited 25×
• Akin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1996-11-22· cited 23×
• McLaughlin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1991-06-28· cited 22×
• McCollum v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1995-12-01· cited 21×
• Craig v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1998-03-06· cited 20×
• Buskey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1994-08-19· cited 19×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chavers v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1978-04-07· cited 230×
• Phelps v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1983-03-29· cited 109×
• Ex Parte Nettles
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1983-07-01· cited 82×
• Nettles v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1983-02-01· cited 73×
• Ex Parte Weems
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1984-11-16· cited 44×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1983-11-01· cited 39×
• Wakefield v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1983-11-01· cited 27×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1977-02-01· cited 20×
• Chambers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1981-05-26· cited 6×
• Womack v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1984-10-23· cited 3×