Legal Opinion

Goar v. State

Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)

Decided February 7, 2002No. 14-00-01248-CRPublishedCited by 26 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

LESLIE BROCK YATES, Justice.

A jury convicted appellant, Randall Elce Goar, of failure to stop and render aid and assessed punishment at five years’ confinement. See Tex. Trans. Code Ann. § 550.021, et seq. (Vernon 1999). In two points of error, appellant challenges the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence. We affirm.

On March 19, 1999, Cecil Benton left his job at Wal-Mart around 8:00 pm. Doyle Knapp, another Wal-Mart employee, testified he knew Benton and saw Benton stopped on his bicycle at a stop sign by the Koy Road overpass around 8:30 pm. Knapp testified that as he…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2000
  3. Cain v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
  4. Wesbrook v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2000
  5. King v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2000

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3Cited by26 opinions

  1. McCown v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2006
  2. McGuire v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2016
  3. Mayer v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2016
  4. Matamoros v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2016
  5. Bernadette Barnette v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)2011

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