Legal Opinion
Burden v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided September 19, 2001No. 1698-99PublishedCited by 834 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
OPINION
2Opinion of the Court · PricePrice, J.
in which KELLER, P.J., and WOMACK, JOHNSON, KEASLER, HERVEY, and HOLCOMB, JJ., joined.
The appellant was convicted of promotion of obscenity. On petition to this court, the appellant argues that because he did not know that the videotape in question was obscene, the evidence is legally insufficient to support his conviction. The appellant also argues that the Court of Appeals erroneously upheld the trial court’s exclusion of comparable pornographic evidence from the internet. Because the statute requires only knowledge of the material’s character and content, and not knowledge of its…
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- Boykin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1991
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- Smith v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
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