Legal Opinion

Myers v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided July 7, 1971No. 43979PublishedCited by 17 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, fifty-five (55) years.

Appellant first contends that the trial court erred in failing to sustain the following objection to the Court’s charge to the jury:

“Defendant objects to that portion of the charge which is paragraph #2 of the charge beginning with ‘You are further instructed that you are not to discuss among yourselves how long the’ and ending with ‘and the Governor of the State of Texas and are no concern of yours’ and request that the total paragraph be stricken by the charge and not read to the jury.”

This objection is too…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Cox v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1951
  2. Porter v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1950
  3. Siros v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1966
  4. Smith v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1967
  5. Urteago v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1960

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3Cited by17 opinions

  1. Borjan v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1990
  2. Brown v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1986
  3. Pennington v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1985
  4. Booth v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1973
  5. Fritz Whittington v. W.J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983

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