Legal Opinion
Myre v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided January 19, 1977No. 52676, 52677PublishedCited by 158 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DALLY, Commissioner.
These appeals are from convictions for the offense of aggravated robbery; the punishment in each case is imprisonment for 75 years.
The appellant contends that the State willfully failed to disclose evidence favorable to him. This contention arises out of a “Gaskin rule” error. Officer R. C. Johnson had made a prosecution report; it was a summary of witnesses’ expected testimony taken from the offense reports made by other officers, and it was also a summary of the circumstances in which the appellant made written pre-trial confessions to Johnson.
Johnson testified…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- Jackson v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Jurek v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1975
- Brumfield v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1969
- Gaskin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1961
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3Cited by158 opinions
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- Esquivel v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1980
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