Legal Opinion
Drone v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)
Decided December 6, 1995No. 03-94-00131-CRPublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Per curiam
A jury found appellant guilty of murder and assessed punishment at imprisonment for life and a $10,000 fine. Penal Code, 63d Leg., R.S., ch. 399, sec. 1, § 19.02, 1973 Tex. Gen.Laws 883, 913, amended by Act of May 28, 1973, 63d Leg., R.S., ch. 426, art. 2, § 1, 1973 Tex.Gen. Laws 1122, 1123 (Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 19.02, since amended).
Appellant lived in a Cameron rooming house owned and managed by Elsie Haas Fuller. Mrs. Fuller, who was eighty-eight years old, lived in a first-floor apartment in the building. On February 1,1993, a Cameron police officer went to Mrs. Fuller’s apartment in…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Harris v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1989
- McFarland v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1992
- Griffin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1981
- Williamson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
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3Cited by74 opinions
- Wilson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2002
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- Colyer, Wilkie Schell Jr.Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2014
- Mosley v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2004
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