Legal Opinion

Encina v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided July 14, 1971No. 44019PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, fifteen (IS) years.

Appellant, in his first three grounds of error, challenges the sufficiency of the evidence.

The entire case against the appellant is made out in the testimony of two physicians and the confession of the appellant. His confession reads as follows:

“My name is Pedro Nanez Encina I’am 20 years old. . . Last Sunday night October 12th, 1969 at about 10:00 P.M. I was at home my father’s house in Mathis, San patricio County, Texas. When my Comman law’s wife’s baby David - said he wanted to go to the rest room, and all…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Jackson v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  3. Lopez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1964
  4. United States v. Howard C. PhelpsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
  5. Gloria Jean Narro v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966

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3Cited by20 opinions

  1. Bell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1979
  2. Brown v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1974
  3. McKittrick v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1976
  4. Honea v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1979
  5. Lindsey v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1973

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