Legal Opinion

Rice v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided April 3, 1991No. 2-90-044-CRPublishedCited by 35 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

FARRIS, Justice.

Rice appeals the revocation of his probated sentence complaining in his one point of error that the trial court abused its discretion because the State failed to prove he was the same person whose sentence was probated. Rice entered a plea of “not true,” to the revocation allegations but never complained in the trial court that he was the wrong man. Faced with adverse authority requiring him to raise the identity issue in the trial court, he tries to distinguish the facts of his case from those of the leading case. See Barrow v. State, 505 S.W.2d 808, 810…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Scamardo v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1974
  2. Davenport v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1978
  3. Grant v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1978
  4. Barrow v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1974

3Cited by35 opinions

  1. Roberson v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2000
  2. Smith v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)2001
  3. Lavalle Johnson v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)2012
  4. Alexander Luis Lopez A/K/A Alexander L. Lopez v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 2nd District (Fort Worth)2010
  5. Alexander Luis Lopez A/K/A Alexander L. Lopez v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 2nd District (Fort Worth)2010

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