Legal Opinion

McKinney v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided May 6, 1981No. 60259PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

DALLY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of the offense of burglary. The punishment, enhanced by one prior felony conviction, is imprisonment for twenty-five years.

The appellant raises six grounds of error complaining of the following: the trial court erred in failing to submit a charge on the lesser included offense of criminal trespass; a fatal variance exists between the court’s charge and the indictment; and the court’s charge is fundamentally defective because it includes an issue that is unsupported by the evidence.

In three grounds of error, the appellant contends that…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Sansone v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
  2. Sparf v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
  3. Berra v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
  4. Watson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1980
  5. Gordon Korb Yates v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Hall v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2007
  2. McKinney v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1982
  3. Dodson v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 12th District (Tyler)1985
  4. Martinez v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1982
  5. Decker v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)1987

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