Legal Opinion
Cooks v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)
Decided June 2, 2005No. 06-04-00079-CRPublished
1Opinion of the Court
169 S.W.3d 288 (2005)
Gary COOKS, Appellant,
v.
The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 06-04-00079-CR.
Court of Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.
Submitted March 23, 2005.
Decided June 2, 2005.
Troy A. Hornsby, Miller, James, Miller & Hornsby, Texarkana, for appellant.
Nicole Habersang, Asst. Dist. Atty., Texarkana, for appellee.
Before MORRISS, C.J., ROSS and CARTER, JJ.
OPINION
Opinion by Chief Justice MORRISS.
After kidnapping his former girlfriend, Delana Atkins, at gunpoint as she left work, Gary Cooks forced Atkins to drive her car away from her workplace. Atkins' panicked, erratic drivingresulting from…
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- Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1988
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