Legal Opinion
Villanueva v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided June 27, 2007No. PD-0718-06PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
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2Opinion of the Court · PricePrice, J.
KEASLER, HERVEY, HOLCOMB and COCHRAN, JJ., joined.
In a single proceeding, the trial court authorized the jury in this cause to convict the appellant for both injury to a child by act and injury to the same child by omission.1 We granted the appellant’s petitions for discretionary review to determine whether his conviction and punishment for both of these offenses violated the protection of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution against being twice punished for the same offense in a single criminal proceeding. We recently held, in Jefferson v. State,2 that the Legislature…
3Cases cited12 opinions
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- Garza v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2007
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