Legal Opinion
Houston v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)
Decided February 16, 2006No. 03-05-00167-CRPublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BEA ANN SMITH, Justice.
A jury found Willie Fred Houston guilty of robbery, and the court sentenced him to forty years in prison. See Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 29.02 (West 2003). Houston appeals his conviction, contending that the trial court erred by overruling his motion to suppress his confession, that the trial court abused its discretion by admitting evidence of the existence of a Crime Stoppers tip, and that the trial court abused its discretion by failing to grant his request for a mistrial. We affirm the judgment of conviction.
BACKGROUND
Houston was convicted of a robbery that took…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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3Cited by24 opinions
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