Legal Opinion

Spakes v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided January 10, 1996No. 0087-95Published

1Opinion of the Court

913 S.W.2d 597 (1996)

Harry Jack SPAKES, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 0087-95.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

January 10, 1996.

William E. Kelly, III, Canyon, for appellant.

John L. Owen, Asst. Dist. Atty., Canyon, Jeffrey L. Van Horn, Asst. State's Attorney, Robert A. Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.

OPINION ON STATE'S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

2Per curiam

A jury convicted Appellant of escape and assessed his punishment at sixty years imprisonment after finding that he was a habitual offender. This conviction was reversed because the…

Also in this document: Dissent.

3Cases cited63 opinions

  1. Boykin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1991
  2. United States v. BaileySupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  3. Commonwealth v. StanleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
  4. People v. LovercampCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1974
  5. Commonwealth v. StanleySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1979

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