Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2025
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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Pennhurst State School & Hospital v. Halderman · Renfro v. State · Irvin v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Appellant next contends that the judge should have instructed the jury on the lesser included offense of murder in the second degree. He suggests that the evidence would support a finding that the homicides were committed by acts “evincing a depraved mind ... although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual.” 21 O.S.1981, § 701.8(1). This contention is without merit. Appellant’s evidence was to the effect that he committed the offenses accidentally, or in self-defense, neither of which would evince a “depraved mind”. See 21 O.S. 1981 , §§ 731 (Excusable homicide), and 733 (Justifiable homicide). The State’s evidence was that appellant acted with malice aforethought, which, while evincing a depraved mind, would not support an inference that appellant acted “without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular person.” See, 21 O.S.1981, § 701.8(1), supra. Where there is no evidence to support a lower degree of the crime charged or lesser included offense, it is not only unnecessary to instruct thereon, the court has no right to ask the jury to consider the issue. Irvin v. State, 617 P.2d 588 (Okl.Cr.1980). We find no error in the refusal to instruct on second degree murder.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State · James v. State“Such as will suffice until contradicted and overcome by other evidence. A case which has proceeded upon sufficient proof to that stage where it will support finding if evidence to contrary is disregarded.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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