Legal Opinion

Boyde v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided September 18, 1974No. 47629PublishedCited by 161 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

DAVIS, Commissioner.

Appeal is taken from a conviction for murder. After the jury returned a verdict of guilty, punishment was assessed by the court at life.

Appellant was convicted under an indictment charging him with the murder of his ten-month-old son on June 26, 1972, “by choking him with a towel.”

Appellant urges thirty-three grounds of error. In view of our disposition of this case, we find it unnecessary to discuss all of appellant’s contentions.

In his eleventh ground of error, appellant urges that the court erred in refusing to grant a mistrial when the “prosecutor deliberately…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Hopkins v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1972
  2. White v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1969
  3. Bray v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1972
  4. Butler v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1973
  5. Stein v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1973

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3Cited by161 opinions

  1. King v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
  2. Livingston v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1987
  3. Fairow v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
  4. Wilson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1996
  5. Anderson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1982

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