Wilson v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
1Concurrence
COCHRAN, J.,
filed a concurring opinion
in which JOHNSON and ALCALA, JJ., joined.
I agree with the majority that the evidence is sufficient to support appellant’s conviction for telephone harassment. I respectfully disagree that the term “repeated” in the telephone-harassment statute means just “more than one telephone call.”1 We ought not jettison the discussion of the term “repeated” from our prior telephone-harassment decision, Scott v. State,2 particularly since the majority’s new definition clearly invites a vagueness and overbreadth challenge to the statute.3 The federal courts declared…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Smith v. GoguenSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- City of Chicago v. MoralesSupreme Court of the United States · 1999
- Baggett v. BullittSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Frisby v. SchultzSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Scott v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2010
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