Legal Opinion
Tapps v. State Tex.
Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)
Decided June 6, 2008No. 03-06-00468-CRPublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
G. ALAN WALDROP, Justice.
We withdraw the opinion and judgment issued April 17, 2008, and issue the following opinion and judgment in their place.
A jury found Ricky Tapps guilty of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. After finding two enhancement paragraphs true, the district court assessed sentence at thirty-two years in prison. Tapps raises several issues on appeal. He contends that the evidence is legally and factually insufficient to support the conviction because he is not a felon in the sense intended by the statute and that the State failed to carry its burden of proof…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Almanza v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1985
- Thompson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1999
- Old Chief v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
- King v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
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3Cited by28 opinions
- Tapps v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2009
- Justin Laroy Fagan v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2012
- Robert Saldana, Jr. v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)2013
- Andrew Garraway v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2015
- Brandon Lee Manuel v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 2nd District (Fort Worth)2016
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