Bowley v. State

PRICE, J.,

filed a dissenting opinion in which MEYERS, JOHNSON and HOLCOMR, JJ., joined.

This case comes to us in such an odd posture that it is difficult for us to say anything of great jurisprudential significance. The trial judge sustained the appellant’s general objection without indicating upon what legal basis he understood the appellant to be objecting. In his appellate brief, the appellant proceeded on the assumption that his objection had been predicated upon Rule 410(4) of the Texas Rules of Evidence, which prohibits the use by the State against a defendant of evidence of any…