Handspur v. State

ONION, Justice (Retired, Sitting by Assignment),

dissenting.

I respectfully dissent. Surely, neither this Court nor the Court of Criminal Appeals wants to be in the position of Pogo, the cartoon character, who said: “We have met the enemy and they’re us.” Yet, that is eventually what we will discover if continued homage is paid to Dingler v. State, 768 S.W.2d 305 (Tex.Crim.App.1989) (Dingler II), as was done in Reed v. State, 785 S.W.2d 412 (Tex.App.—Dallas 1990) (Reed I), which in turn was “adopted” by the Court of Criminal Appeals in Reed v. State, No. 222-90 (Tex.Crim.App. May 9, 1990) (Reed…