Legal Opinion · Dissent

Vasquez v. State

Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)

Decided November 29, 1984No. 01-82-0127-CRPublished

1DissentLevy, Justice

Appellant’s first ground of error, evidential insufficiency, is difficult enough to resolve because of both the circumstantial nature of the evidence and its marginal weight and implications.

It is even more difficult for me to accept the majority’s disposition of the second and third grounds of error. The nearest the evidence approaches to showing, albeit circumstantially, that the appellant knew that his deceased father was planning to remove him from the will was the testimony of appellant’s two brothers: Joe admitted that he did not know whether appellant was so informed, and further…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Abel v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
  2. Bailey v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1975
  3. Cannady v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1979
  4. Dickey v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1977
  5. Gant v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1983

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