Legal Opinion · Dissent

Gunn v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided February 22, 1922No. 6459Published

Appeal from the District Court of Bell. Tried below before the Honorable M. B. Blair. Appeal from a conviction of murder; penalty, ninety-nine years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.

1DissentMorrow, Presiding Judge

(dissenting). — After much thought and research my associates have determined that it is questionable whether the evidence is such as calls for a charge on the presumption arising from the use of a deadly weapon; that if under the facts such a charge would have been appropriate, its omission in the instant case was not error authorizing a reversal of the judgment. In forming this conclusion, if I properly comprehend their view, they are of the opinion that taking into account the charge that was given and the facts in hand a reversal should not result for the reason that the omission was not…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Lewis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1910
  2. Alexander v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1911
  3. McMichael v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1906
  4. Briscoe v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1921
  5. Lewellen v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1922

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