Williams 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 “the trial judge must accede to the accused’s request and grant a cautionary jury instruction” when accomplice testimony is “the only evidence against the defendant” (emphasis added) (quoting Holmes v. State, 481 So. 2d 319, 322 (Miss. 1985))
• “In determining whether a cautionary jury instruction is required, the testimony that must be corroborated is the testimony tying the defendant on trial to the crime, and it is irrelevant whether other portions of the accomplice’s testimony are corroborated.”
• “Although granting a cautionary instruction regarding the testimony of an accomplice is within the trial judge’s discretion, such an instruction is required when the accomplice’s testimony is the sole basis for the conviction, and the defendant’s guilt is not clearly proven.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Gillett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-07-01· cited 115×
• Osborne v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2011-01-06· cited 49×
• Robert Carson v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2016-11-17· cited 42×
• Lamarcus Jones v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2016-08-11· cited 25×
• Grossley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2013-06-25· cited 21×
• Bennie Gunn v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2014-11-04· cited 13×
• King v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-08-26· cited 11×
• Stribling v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2011-08-16· cited 10×
• King v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2012-03-01· cited 9×
• Joel Jones v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2016-06-21· cited 5×
• Corey Lathan v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2014-10-07· cited 4×
• Donelson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2014-08-05· cited 4×
• Ford v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-09-18· cited 4×
• Tucker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2010-11-23· cited 2×
• Hilliard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2010-08-24· cited 2×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2011-08-23· cited 2×
• Jeremiah Allen v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2016-11-08· cited 2×
• James v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2014-02-11· cited 2×
• Gordon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2011-12-13· cited 2×
• Roger Lee Gillett v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-11-05

Cites

32 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ballenger v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-22· cited 508×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-08-15· cited 255×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-09-02· cited 212×
• Burns v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-11-19· cited 209×
• Brewer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-07-23· cited 180×
• Austin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-05-03· cited 110×
• Payton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-11-06· cited 106×
• Winters v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-02-15· cited 80×
• Slaughter v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-02-14· cited 62×
• Mason v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-03-30· cited 59×
• Derden v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-03-16· cited 56×
• Strahan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-07-23· cited 48×
• Wheeler v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-04-11· cited 47×
• Burke v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-02-20· cited 45×
• Holmes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-12-04· cited 44×
• Cole v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1953-06-08· cited 41×
• Flanagan v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-07-29· cited 39×
• Simpson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-01-17· cited 38×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-10· cited 36×
• Catchings v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1981-01-28· cited 32×