Legal Opinion
Flores v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)
Decided January 17, 1990No. 08-89-00075-CRPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FULLER, Justice.
Appellant was convicted by a jury of delivery of heroin, a controlled substance. Punishment, enhanced by two prior felonies, was assessed at sixty years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections. We reverse and render.
An Ector County grand jury had already been impaneled and had indicted Appellant at the time he was arrested. He thereafter, on October 6, 1988, filed his pro se Motion to Quash the Indictment based on the selection of the grand, jury. Under Tex.Code Crim.Pro.Ann. arts. 19.27 and 19.-30 (Vernon 1977 and Supp.1990), a challenge to the grand jury…
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- Hernandez v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Muniz v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1978
- Evans v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1981
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3Cited by2 opinions
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