Vennus v. State

CONCURRING OPINION

PRICE, J.,

filed a concurring opinion in which WOMACK, J., joined with respect to Part I.

I agree that we should reverse the judgment of the court of appeals and reinstate the trial court’s judgment in this case. I would do so by sustaining the State’s second ground for review, however, and dismissing its first, rather than the other way around as the Court does today. I am dubious of the Court’s disposition of the State’s estoppel/invited error holding, and nervous about its implications for future cases. The court of appeals’s opinion was unpublished and of no precedential…