Legal Opinion · Dissent

Moosani v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided December 6, 1995No. 0034-94Published

1DissentBaird, Judge

We granted appellant’s petition for discretionary review to determine whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding appellant was not entitled to assert a common law defense because he habitually carried a handgun. And, if appellant was not entitled to assert the common law defense, whether he was precluded from asserting the statutory defense of traveling. The plurality avoids these issues by simply adopting the opinion of the Court of Appeals. At an ever increas-*570mg pace, a plurality of this Court is treating the issues before us with a glib nonchalance, Gabriel v. State, 900 S.W.2d 721,…

2Cases cited39 opinions

  1. Boykin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1991
  2. Grunsfeld v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1992
  3. Crittenden v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1995
  4. Evers v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1978
  5. McGlothlin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1995

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