Legal Opinion

Quintana v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided March 26, 1969No. 41959PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, death.

Appellant was apprehended by officers in the act of assaulting the prosecutrix in her home while she was nude. She testified as to penetration. The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged.

Appellant’s first ground of error is that the court erred in overruling certain of his challenges for cause. It is settled law in this State that for an appellant to complain of the court’s overruling his challenges for cause, he must first have exhausted his peremptory challenges, Cook v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 398 S.W.2d 284, cert. den.…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Smith v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1968
  3. Pittman v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1968
  4. Cook v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1965
  5. Gamez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1961

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Tezeno v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1972
  2. Turner v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1969
  3. Quintana v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  4. Sanchez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1970
  5. Brooks v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1972

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