Legal Opinion
Morris v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided November 18, 2009No. PD-0240-07PublishedCited by 95 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · CochranCochran, J.
in which WOMACK, JOHNSON, KEASLER, HERVEY, and HOLCOMB, JJ„ joined.
Appellant’s high-speed boat collided with a cabin cruiser on Lake Conroe, killing two adults and a baby. A jury convicted appellant of three counts of intoxication manslaughter. The court of appeals found that the competency jury’s verdict that appellant, who claimed amnesia concerning the boat accident, was competent to stand trial was not against the great weight and preponderance of the evidence.1 We granted both appellant’s and the State’s petitions for discretionary review to 1) revisit Jackson v. State, a prior…
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- Riggins v. NevadaSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
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