Legal Opinion
Curry v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided September 20, 2000No. 1521-99Published
1Opinion of the Court 1
30 S.W.3d 394 (2000)
Steven Troy CURRY, Appellant,
v.
The STATE of Texas.
No. 1521-99.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
September 20, 2000.
Charles Freeman, Houston, for appellant.
Jeffrey L. Van Horn, First Asst. State's Atty., Matthew Paul, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.
OPINION
2Opinion of the Court · KeaslerKeasler, J., joined by McCORMICK, P.J., and Mansfield, Keller, Price, Holland, and Womack, J.J.,
The State's indictment of Steven Curry charged him with aggravated kidnapping "by using and threatening to use deadly force namely, a firearm." Over Curry's objection, the trial court permitted the State to delete this phrase after trial began. We must decide whether the trial court erred in allowing this deletion,…
3Cases cited54 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Malik v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
- Curry v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2000
- Moreno v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1988
- Thomas v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1981
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