Legal Opinion
Peden v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided March 21, 1996No. 2-94-160-CRPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HOLMAN, Justice.
A jury convicted Curtis Peden of murdering Gaylan Gibson with a deadly weapon, a firearm, and assessed his punishment at life imprisonment in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. He challenges his conviction in eleven points of error. We reverse and remand.
The Physical Evidence
Near midnight on January 8, 1990, while driving through Krum, Texas, near an intersection, Cory Yeager saw a pickup truck in a ditch with the lights on. Stopping, he saw a man “slumped over” inside the truck and some blood. He went to a pay phone, called police,…
2Cases cited33 opinions
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- Oregon v. KennedySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Matson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1991
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