Case Digests

Sims v. State

Publication Date: 2008-07-03
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Date Filed: 2008-07-02
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Case Number: PD-1575-07

Price, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.OPINIONThe appellant was convicted by a jury for the offense of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a knife.a HREF="#D*fn1" NAME="S*f

Rice v. State

Publication Date: 2011-03-09
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Date Filed: 2011-03-09
Court: Tex. Crim. App.
Judge: Meyers, J.
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Case Number: NO. PD-528-10, PD-529-10

Meyers, J., delivered the opinion of the unanimous Court.OPINIONAppellant was charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, to-wit: a motor vehicle. A jury convicted him

Grotti v. State

Publication Date: 2008-06-26
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Date Filed: 2008-06-25
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Case Number: PD-134-07

Johnson, J., delivered the opinion of the Court in which Meyers, Price, Womack, Keasler, Hervey, Holcomb, and Cochran, JJ., joined. Keller, P.J., dissented.OPINIONOn October 13, 2003, the state

Ex parte Hearn

Publication Date: 2010-04-30
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Date Filed: 2010-04-28
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Case Number: AP-76,237

Johnson, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.OPINIONApplicant, Yokamon Laneal Hearn, was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. In this subsequent application for habeas

Mercier v. State

Publication Date: 2010-10-07
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Date Filed: 2010-10-06
Court: Tex. Crim. App.
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Case Number: PD-1121-09

OPINIONAppellant, Eugene Mercier, was convicted of conspiracy to commit barratry. The jury sentenced him to two years' confinement, suspended for five years with community supervision, and a fine o

Scott v. State

Publication Date: 2010-10-07
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Date Filed: 2010-10-06
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Case Number: Nos. PD-1069-09 & PD-1070-09

Holcomb, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Price, Womack, Johnson, Keasler, Hervey, and Cochran, JJ., joined. Johnson, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Cochran, J., joined. K

Ex Parte William Lee Niswanger

Publication Date: 2011-03-16
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Date Filed: 2011-03-16
Court: Tex. Crim. App.
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Case Number: NO. AP-76,302

Meyers, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Keller, P.J., and Keasler, Hervey, and Cochran, JJ., joined. Womack, J., filed a concurring opinion. Price, J., filed a dissenting opinion,

Wirth v. State

Publication Date: 2012-03-22
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Date Filed: 2012-03-21
Court: Tex. Crim. App.
Judge: Womack, J.,
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Case Number: PD-1054-11

Pfeiffer v. State

Publication Date: 2012-04-19
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Date Filed: 2012-04-18
Court: Tex. Crim. App.
Judge: Cochran, J
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Case Number: NO. PD-1234-11

Cochran, J., delivered the opinion of the Court in which Keller, P.J. and Price, Womack, Johnson, Keasler, Hervey and Alcala, JJ., joined. Meyers, J., filed a dissenting opinion.O

Mason v. State

Publication Date: 2010-10-07
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Date Filed: 2010-10-06
Court: Tex. Crim. App.
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Case Number: PD-1373-09

Meyers, J., delivered the opinion of the Court in which Price, Keasler, Hervey, Holcomb, and Cochran, JJ., joined. Womack, J., filed a concurring opinion. Keller, P.J., concurred. Johnson, J., dissent