Legal Opinion

Freeman v. State

Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)

Decided February 18, 1999No. 09-97-479 CRPublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

DON BURGESS, Justice.

A jury convicted David Freeman of aggravated sexual assault and sentenced him to five years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice — Institutional Division. Freeman appeals raising nine points of error.

We will first address Freeman’s third point of error as it is dispositive of this case. Freeman argues in his third point the trial court erred in overruling several of his objections to the State’s closing argument. The first instance complained of is the one with which we are presently concerned.

In closing argument, in the guilt/innocence phase of…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Ethington v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1991
  2. McClure v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1976
  3. Bruton v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1996
  4. Atkins v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)1996
  5. Hinkle v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)1989

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Vann v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2007
  2. David Browne v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2015
  3. State v. IduarteCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2007
  4. Jesus Cervando Lopez v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2013
  5. John Dickerson v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2001

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