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  • People v. Brown

    11 Cal. 3d 784 · California Supreme Court · Jun 21, 1974

    A jury found Bedford Alvis Brown guilty of one count of kidnaping (Pen. Code, § 207), 1 one count of battery (§ 242), one count of petty theft (§§ 484, 488) and two counts of trespassing (§ 602, subd. (/)). … (People v. Stanworth, supra, ante, 588, 601.) Where the movements of the victim are slight or insubstantial as they were in People v.

    Overruled by People v. Martinez, 20 Cal. 4th 225 (1999)Cited 20 timesPublished
  • Brown v. State

    755 So. 2d 616 · Supreme Court of Florida · Mar 9, 2000

    See Brown, 565 So.2d at 308 . Brown also notes that, subsequent *622 to Brown, the United States Supreme Court in Espinosa v. Florida, 505 U.S. 1079 , 112 S.Ct. 2926 , 120 L.Ed.2d 854 (1992), and Hodges v. … In Pope v.

    Cited 29 timesPublished
  • Guile v. Brown

    38 Conn. 237 · Supreme Court of Connecticut · Mar 15, 1871

    In this respect there is a material difference between this case and the case of Main v. The First School District. … We referred briefly to the legislation of the state on this subject in Curtis v. Gill, 84 Conn., 55 .

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Brown v. State

    11 Fla. L. Weekly 208 · Supreme Court of Florida · May 8, 1986

    BROWN, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent. No. 66921. Supreme Court of Florida. May 8, 1986. Michael E. Allen, Public Defender and Larry G. Bryant, Asst. … Brown v. State, 464 So.2d 193 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985).

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Thomas

    221 Tenn. 319 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Mar 27, 1968

    We will refer to the parties as they appeared in the trial court: that is, Catherine Thomas as petitioner and William Charles Brown as defendant. … This statute was discussed and construed in the case of Shelley v.

    Cited 15 timesPublished
  • Brown v. State

    856 S.W.2d 177 · Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · Jun 23, 1993

    Gerry La-Keith Brown, appellant, was charged by indictment with murder, alleged to have been committed on November 29, 1988. … In Mincey v.

    Cited 33 timesPublished
  • People v. Brown

    54 Ill. 2d 21 · Illinois Supreme Court · Mar 20, 1973

    JUSTICE SCHAEFER delivered the opinion of the court: The defendant, Charles Steven Brown, was indicted for the murder of three-year-old Roderick Jackson, the son of Thelma Jackson, with whom the defendant was living. … (People v. Brown (1967), 83 Ill. App. 2d 411 .) Thereafter the defendant filed a post-conviction petition, which was dismissed upon motion, and the defendant now appeals from that judgment.

    Cited 47 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Brown

    444 Pa. 318 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Oct 12, 1971

    manifested an intention upon his part, not merely to persuade and induce her to accede to his expressed desire to have intercourse with her, but also, in the event of her refusal, to overcome her resistance.’ ” Commonwealth v. … We believe, under > the circumstances of this case, that the court had every i*ight to trust the jury. - As the Supreme Court said in Bruton v.

    Cited 14 timesPublished
  • Bowman v. Brown

    52 Iowa 437 · Supreme Court of Iowa · Dec 5, 1879

    The defendant Brown in his answer admitted the receipt by him of the identical sums of money which he is charged with appropriating to his own use in the petition, but he alleged that he accounted therefor and paid the same … Moffatt et al v. Fisher, 47 Iowa, 473 .

    Cited 15 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Peck

    2 Wis. 261 · Wisconsin Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1853

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Brown v. People

    239 P.3d 764 · Supreme Court of Colorado · Sep 20, 2010

    After spending the day drinking and watching football, Brown boarded his bus at 6:00 p.m. 1 During a scheduled stop in Iowa, local authorities removed Brown from the bus and placed him under arrest. … The jury convicted Brown as charged. After distinguishing our opinion in People v.

    Cited 30 timesPublished
  • Robinson v. Brown

    82 Ill. 279 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 15, 1876

    Brown against John S. Eubanks, William G. Sloan, Moses P. McGehee and Jo Bobinson, to the Hovember term, 1874, of said court. The defendants were all served except Eubanks. … Cook v. Wood, 24 Ill. 295 .

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Brown v. State

    746 N.E.2d 63 · Indiana Supreme Court · Apr 17, 2001

    Timberlake v. State, 690 N.E.2d 243, 256 (Ind. 1997) (citing Dixon v. State, 154 Ind. App. 603, 290 N.E.2d 731 (1972)). … (Id.) [6] In any event, the evidence against Brown (summarized above) was so formidable that the remarks did not place him in grave peril. See Scherer v.

    Cited 24 timesPublished
  • Irwin v. Brown

    3 Shan. Cas. 309 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1889

    Stuart v. Clark, 2 Swan, 9 . … [M. & V.] Code, secs. 1439, 1524 [Shannon’s Code, secs. 1721, 1819]. If capacity to float a log ivas the criterion of navigability, perhaps no stream in the state could be dammed.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • People v. Brown

    917 N.W.2d 382 · Michigan Supreme Court · Sep 12, 2018

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • State v. Brown

    42 A.3d 1239 · Supreme Court of Rhode Island · May 10, 2012

    This case came before the Supreme Court on April 3, 2012, on appeal from a Superior Court judgment of conviction after a jury verdict finding the defendant, Kayborn Brown (defendant or Brown), guilty of first-degree robbery … See State v. Shelton, 990 A.2d 191, 202 (R.I.2010) (citing State v. Tempest, 651 A.2d 1198, 1216 (R.I.1995)).

    Cited 16 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Hayes

    92 Wash. 300 · Washington Supreme Court · Jul 28, 1916

    Brown v. Cairns, 107 Iowa 727 , 77 N. W. 478 . … Sessinghaus v. Knocke, 127 Mo. App. 300 , 105 S. W. 283 ; Leggett v. Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co., 121 Mo. App. 70 , 97 S. W. 976 ; Stewart v. Sprague, 71 Mich. 50 , 38 N. W. 673 ; Hays v.

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Brown

    179 A.3d 454 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jan 22, 2018

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Brown v. State

    195 Ga. 430 · Supreme Court of Georgia · Feb 11, 1943

    Annie Brown was tried and convicted of mupder in the killing of Bosa Lee Willis, by cutting and stabbing her with a knife. The evidence presents two separate and distinct lines of testimony. … R. 277 ); Teasley v. State, 104 Ga. 738 ( 30 S. E. 938 ); Pugh v. State, 114 Ga. 16 ( 39 S. E. 875 ); Warrick v. State, 125 Ga. 133 ( 53 S. E. 1027 ); Fryer v. State, 128 Ga. 28 ( 57 S. E. 93 ); Franklin v.

    Cited 19 timesPublished
  • State v. Brown

    496 So. 2d 261 · Supreme Court of Louisiana · Oct 20, 1986

    Barely nine weeks after the letters appeared in the local newspaper, the voir dire for the trial of Bryan Brown began. In State v. … State v. Wilson, 467 So.2d 503 (La.1985); State v. Felde, 382 So.2d 1384 (La.1980); State v. Sonnier, 379 So.2d 1336 (La.1979).

    Cited 71 timesPublished

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