6 Ark. App. 102 - Bongfeldt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
19 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3161 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974) · 18 U.S.C. § 3172 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974)
Relies on Caton v. State · Cassell v. State · Smith v. State · Coble v. State · Brewer v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court has zealously protected the right of an accused to have the jury instructed on lesser offenses included in a greater offense charged. We have consistently held that a trial court commits reversible error when it refuses to give a correct instruction defining a lesser . included offense and its punishment when there is testimony on which the defendant might be found guilty of the lesser rather than the greater offense. [Citations omitted.] We have been so careful to see that a jury has an opportunity to pass upon lesser offenses as well as the greater one charged that we have held that it is not prejudicial error to give an instruction which permits the jury to find a defendant guilty of a lower offense than that charged, even when the defendant objects, because the evidence shows him to be guilty of the higher offense or of nothing at all. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hinson v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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