Legal Opinion

Banda v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided March 4, 1987No. 3-86-139-CRPublishedCited by 32 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BRADY, Justice.

Appellant was convicted in a jury trial of the offense of indecency with a child and sentenced to twenty years. In this appeal appellant presents four points of error asserting that: 1) disclosure to the jury that the complaining witness passed a polygraph examination was so highly prejudicial that a new trial should be ordered; 2) the trial court should have granted a new trial after the prosecutrix retracted her testimony; 3) it was error to not appoint legal counsel to represent the prosecutrix; and 4) the trial court allowed improper jury argument. We affirm.

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2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Nethery v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1985
  2. Romero v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1973
  3. Miller v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1978
  4. Robinson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1977
  5. Nichols v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1964

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3Cited by32 opinions

  1. Tennard v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1991
  2. Keeter v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2005
  3. Moreno v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District1999
  4. Justin Lee May v. James A. Collins, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional DivisionCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1992
  5. Hoyos v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)1997

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