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.

• explaining that Maryland robbery is a common law offense that is defined as the “taking and carrying away of the personal property of another from his person by the use of violence or by putting in fear”
• defining common law robbery as “the felonious taking 3 and carrying away of the personal property of another from his person by the use of violence or by putting in fear”
• appellant “contended that the information faded to state an offense and hence was fatally defective for lack of jurisdiction in the circuit court”
• “A claim that a charging document fails to charge or characterize an offense is jurisdictional and may be raised, as here, for the first time on appeal.”
• It is fundamental that a court is without power to render a verdict or impose a sentence under a charging document which does not charge an offense within its jurisdiction prescribed by common law or by statute
• “Every criminal charge must characterize the crime, and provide the defendant with such a description of the particular act alleged to have been committed so as to inform him of the specific conduct with which he is charged, thereby enabling him to defend against the accusation[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-06-10· cited 157×
• West v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-03-31· cited 119×
• Snowden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-01-14· cited 113×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-04-28· cited 96×
• Metheny v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-07-24· cited 81×
• Borchardt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-12-13· cited 74×
• Denicolis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-12-10· cited 67×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-06-12· cited 67×
• Townes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-10-24· cited 67×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-03-05· cited 57×
• United States v. Larry Wilson
  Fourth Circuit· 1991-12-03· cited 56×
• Huffington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-11-13· cited 46×
• State v. Mulkey
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-07-06· cited 40×
• Tapscott v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1995-08-31· cited 36×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-02-19· cited 33×
• Baker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-02-07· cited 32×
• Craig v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1988-12-21· cited 31×
• State v. Nieblas-Duarte
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1989-08-21· cited 30×
• Lane v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-12-15· cited 29×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-07-10· cited 27×

Cites

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

• Andresen v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-29· cited 1,306×
• Andresen v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-01-10· cited 153×
• Stebbing v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-04-16· cited 115×
• Pulley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-04-10· cited 99×
• State v. Ward
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-12-21· cited 93×
• Skokomish Tribe of Indians v. France
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-09· cited 75×
• Hadder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1965-04-14· cited 74×
• State v. Gover
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1973-01-09· cited 67×
• Ayre v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-08-31· cited 64×
• State v. Canova
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-11-15· cited 59×
• Putnam v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-05-05· cited 50×
• Baker v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1969-02-19· cited 41×
• State v. Williamson
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-02-21· cited 40×
• Urciolo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-10-10· cited 37×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1963-06-11· cited 35×
• Whitehead v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1983-04-15· cited 31×
• Kearney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1877-12-20· cited 29×
• State v. Bussiere
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1978-09-27· cited 28×
• Lank v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1959-03-20· cited 24×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-12-23· cited 21×