Legal Opinion
Ayers v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided November 12, 1980No. 58832, 58833PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION ON STATE’S MOTION FOR REHEARING
PHILLIPS, Judge.
The prior panel opinion is withdrawn.
These are appeals from convictions for murder. Punishment in each cause is imprisonment for 45 years.
On original submission a panel of this Court found the trial court’s charge on guilt/innocence to be fundamentally defective. Specifically, the panel held that the court fundamentally erred in (1) failing to require as a prerequisite to a conviction for murder a finding beyond a reasonable doubt that appellant was not acting under the immediate influence of sudden passion arising from an adequate cause,…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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- Jenkins v. AndersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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- Anderson v. CharlesSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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3Cited by61 opinions
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