Legal Opinion

Getts v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided January 26, 2005No. PD-0093-04Published

1Opinion of the Court

155 S.W.3d 153 (2005)

Bobby Doyle GETTS, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas.

No. PD-0093-04.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 26, 2005.

Nancy Paula Perkins, Athens, for Appellant.

Matthew Paul, State's Atty., Austin, for State.

OPINION

KEASLER, J., delivered the opinion of the Court in which PRICE, WOMACK, JOHNSON, HERVEY, and HOLCOMB, JJ., joined.

Bobby Doyle Getts was charged with a DWI committed in 2002. The indictment alleged two previous DWI convictions — one in 1997 and one in 1984. We must decide whether these previous convictions were sufficient to elevate the 2002 offense to a…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Anders v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Lamie v. United States TrusteeSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
  3. Boykin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1991
  4. Kutzner v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2002
  5. United States Ex Rel. Totten v. Bombardier Corp.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2004

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