Legal Opinion

Wright v. State

Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)

Decided December 9, 1998No. 09-97-180 CRPublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

WALKER, Chief Justice.

A jury found Marcus Wright guilty of retaliation and assessed punishment at confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, for a term of ten years, and a $5,000 fine. The trial court ordered the sentence to be served consecutively to the offense for which Wright was incarcerated at the time he committed the offense. The sole point of error challenges the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction.

In reviewing the legal sufficiency of the evidence, we consider all the record evidence in the light most…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Clewis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1996
  3. Cain v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
  4. Santellan v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
  5. McCoy v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1996

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Schaetzle v. CockrellCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2003
  2. Wiggins v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2008
  3. Martin v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)2004
  4. In re M.W.Court of Appeals of Texas · 2015
  5. Ben Wiggins v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2008

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