293 So. 2d 810 - Griffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2019
16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Harper v. State · Nicholson v. State · 293 So. 2d 807 - McCray v. State · Prine v. State · Bruce v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“The only other error assigned ... is that the state was allowed to bring out on cross-examination of James Griffin, a co-indictee, that he had been tried and convicted the preceding week and found guilty of the same murder. While this evidence was brought out by the state under the guise of showing the previous conviction of James Griffin, it was done in such a manner that the jury could not help knowing that James Griffin had been tried for the same offense the preceding week and found guilty. It was proper for the state to show that the witness James Griffin had been convicted of murder even though this conviction was on appeal... . However, it was not proper to do so in such a manner as to inform the jury that James Griffin, a co-indictee had been tried and convicted of the same offense... . ( 293 So.2d at 812 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henderson v. State“It is well settled that in the absence of a conspiracy to commit a homicide, the mere presence of a person is not sufficient even though such person might have approved of the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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