Legal Opinion
Grimes v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided March 27, 1991No. 769-88PublishedCited by 125 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION ON THE STATE’S PETITIONS FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW
McCORMICK, Presiding Judge.
A jury convicted appellant, Troy Lee Grimes, of aggravated sexual assault for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment and ordered to pay a $10,000.00 fine. For reasons not important to this opinion, the Amarillo Court of Appeals reversed the conviction “for errors committed in the punishment phase only.”1 Grimes v. State, (Tex.App. — Amarillo, No. 07-87-0137-CR, delivered May 28, 1988) (unpublished opinion). Instead of simply remanding the case to the trial court, the Court of Appeals, after it held that…
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3Cited by125 opinions
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