Legal Opinion
Groh v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided December 4, 1986No. 01-85-0975-CRPublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WARREN, Justice.
A jury found appellant guilty of aggravated sexual assault, and upon his plea of “true” to the enhancement paragraph of the indictment, assessed punishment at 70 years confinement.
Appellant brings three points of error: (1) the trial court “erred in ordering the [defense] witness, Gaskins, to appear before the jury in jail clothes” during presentation of the State’s case, for the purpose of identification by the complainant; (2) the trial court erred in allowing the trial to continue after the court discovered the presence of a juror who was acquainted with Gaskins, a…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Estelle v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Schneble v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Vanderbilt v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1981
- Anderson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1982
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Prudhomme v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2000
- Licon v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)2003
- Murdock v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1992
- Gibson v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 10th District (Waco)2007
- Raymond Lee Cavitt v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2015
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