Legal Opinion

Burns v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided July 29, 1987No. C14-86-123-CRPublishedCited by 23 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

SEARS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of aggravated sexual assault. Appellant was found guilty by a jury and his punishment, enhanced by two prior felony convictions, was assessed by the court at confinement for forty years in the Texas Department of Corrections. We affirm.

Appellant asserts seven points of error. In his first point of error, Appellant contends that since Section 3.01 of the Texas Penal Code restricts its definition of “criminal episode” to property offenses and no other definition of this term is provided by the Code, the concept of…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Vaughn v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1980
  2. Drake v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1985
  3. Jackson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1979
  4. Campos v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1981
  5. Clark v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)1986

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3Cited by23 opinions

  1. Hernandez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2017
  2. Quincy v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)2009
  3. Dodgen v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 11th District (Eastland)1996
  4. Cruz v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)2007
  5. Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1989

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