Legal Opinion

Williams v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided February 2, 1983No. 61662PublishedCited by 37 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

McCORMICK, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for conspiracy to commit aggravated kidnapping. Punishment, enhanced by one prior conviction, was assessed at life. Appellant raises twenty-two grounds of error. Due to our disposition of his fourteenth ground of error, we find it unnecessary to address his other contentions.

Appellant argues that since the evidence shows that the appellant’s only co-eonspirator was feigning participation the evidence is insufficient to support a conspiracy conviction.

V.T.C.A., Penal Code, Section 15.-02(a), sets out the elements of a conspiracy. They…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Burks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  2. Greene v. MasseySupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  3. United States v. Joseph A. Chase, United States of America v. Robert H. Parrish, United States of America v. Wyatt J. Roy, Jr.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1967
  4. Julian W. Sears v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1965
  5. United States v. William Rose and Robert PetersonCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1978

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3Cited by37 opinions

  1. State v. PachecoWashington Supreme Court · 1994
  2. O'Brien v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2018
  3. Cantrell v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2002
  4. State v. RambousekNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1992
  5. Woods v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1991

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