Legal Opinion
Thomas Lloyd Taunton v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)
Decided June 19, 2015No. 06-14-00159-CRPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Opinion by Justice Moseley
Thomas Lloyd Taunton was convicted by a jury of the capital murder (see Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 19.03(a)(7)(A) (West Supp.2014)) of his stepfather, Harold Harpst, and of the murder (see Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 19.02(b) (West 2010)) of his mother, Willie Sue Harpst. 1 After being sentenced to life imprisonment without parole and fined $10,000.00 on the capital murder charge and being sentenced to another term of life imprisonment on the murder charge, Taunton filed an appeal. Taunton’s complaints on appeal center exclusively on the sufficiency of the affidavits…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Illinois v. GatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Guzman v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
- Ornelas v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1996
- Jones v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- State v. McLainCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2011
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Christian Vernon Sims v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2017
- Robert Ray Owens v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2019
- Taunton, Thomas LloydCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2015
- Taunton, Thomas LloydCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2015