Legal Opinion

Dietz v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided June 19, 1985No. 09 84 156 CRPublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

BURGESS, Justice.

Appellant was convicted by a jury for the offense of murder and assessed punishment at confinement for a term of sixty years.

Appellant brings forward five grounds of error. The first three grounds complain of improper admission into evidence of appellant’s written statement taken after his arrest. His fourth ground complains of error in that “The Prosecutor made an improper comment on Appellant’s failure to testify”, and his fifth ground challenges the sufficiency of the evidence.

We shall first address the ground complaining of improper jury argument, since it is our…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Koller v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1975
  2. McDaniel v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1975
  3. Harris v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1984

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Jennifer Jill Whitehead v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2014
  2. Mariah Wooldridge v. the State of Texas, Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)2024

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