Legal Opinion
Butler v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided March 13, 1968No. 41007PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MORRISON, Judge.
The offense is subornation of perjury; the punishment, six years, probated.
The sufficiency of the evidence is strenuously challenged. Willie Hanson, the State’s principal witness, was seriously impeached by contradictory statements and in his own testimony, but in doing so, it is believed that under the holding of this Court in Castro v. State, 124 Tex.Cr.R. 13, 60 S.W.2d 211, with opinions by Judge Hawkins, Lattimore and Morrow, he was shown to have known what a felony was when he swore falsely in 1965 that he had not been previously convicted of a felony.
It was shown…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- United States v. NorrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
- Nain Antoun Zebouni v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1955
- Llanos-Senarillos v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1949
- Castro v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1933
- United States v. GellerDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1957
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3Cited by28 opinions
- Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1984
- McKinney v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1974
- Moore v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1976
- Taylor v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1982
- Seiffert v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1973
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