Legal Opinion
State v. Weiss
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided November 10, 1999No. 09-98-072 CRPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DON BURGESS, Justice.
A jury convicted Donald Edward Weiss of capital murder. Weiss was then sentenced to life imprisonment in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Institutional Division. Weiss filed a motion for a new trial on the basis of newly discovered evidence. Following a hearing on that motion, the trial court granted Weiss a new trial. The State appeals alleging the trial court abused its discretion in granting Weiss’ motion for new trial.
The granting of a motion for new trial rests within the sound discretion of the trial court and we will not reverse that decision…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Ethington v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1991
- State v. GonzalezCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1993
- Moore v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1994
- State v. Hartman, Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)1991
- Johnson v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)1999
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3Cited by4 opinions
- State v. Krueger, Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)2005
- State v. Martin Rivera Lopez, Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)2018
- State v. Amy Vanessa Krueger, Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)2005
- State v. Martin Rivera Lopez, Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)2018