Legal Opinion
Torres v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided April 25, 1973No. 46097PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JACKSON, Commissioner.
Conviction by a jury on a plea of not guilty of assault with intent to rape; the punishment assessed by the court, 21 years.
About 2:00 A.M. on August 1, 1970, prosecutrix was accosted by a Spanish man while she was walking home from her job. The man pulled her into some bushes, grabbed her throat and began choking her. She lost consciousness and regained it some time later in Parkland Hospital. She was sore all over, and “her face and everything was hurting real bad and my throat.” Her nose was bruised and had blood dried all around it. She had bad burns around…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Dennis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Martin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1972
- Brown v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1971
- Daywood v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1952
- Ward v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1971
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3Cited by24 opinions
- Thomas v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1979
- McBrayer v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1974
- Bravo v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1982
- Brown v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District1997
- McCardell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1977
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