Legal Opinion
Lewis v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided August 6, 1987No. 01-86-0101-CR, 01-86-0102-CR, 01-86-0103-CR, 01-86-0104-CRPublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WARREN, Justice.
Appellant was indicted for the murder of four members of his family; the four causes were consolidated for trial. A jury found him guilty and assessed punishment at 99 years imprisonment in each cause.
In seven points of error, appellant claims that:(1) the court erroneously admitted into evidence, over objection, the results of a blood-spatter analysis by Herbert Leon MacDonnell;(2) the trial court erred in overruling appellant’s motion to suppress and in admitting portions of his written statement, because it was the product of an illegal arrest;(3) the evidence is…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Brown v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Gerstein v. PughSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Frye v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1923
- Dunaway v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by25 opinions
- State v. RobertsWashington Supreme Court · 2000
- People v. HaywoodMichigan Court of Appeals · 1995
- State v. MooreSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1990
- State v. RodgersIdaho Supreme Court · 1991
- Hawkins v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)1990
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