Legal Opinion

Williams v. State

Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)

Decided April 16, 1985No. 05-84-00422-CRPublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SPARLING, Justice.

Appellant, James Curtis Williams, was convicted of aggravated sexual assault, sentenced to life imprisonment, and assessed a $10,000 fine. Appellant contends that (1) evidence of the victim’s prior sexual conduct was excluded erroneously; (2) evidence that the victim lived with her brother was excluded erroneously; (3) the indictment was fundamentally defective in that it did not allege that the victim believed that appellant had the present ability to execute the threat to use force or violence; and (4) his motion to shuffle the jury panel was denied erroneously. We…

2Cases cited36 opinions

  1. Almanza v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1985
  2. Moore v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1980
  3. Thomas v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1981
  4. Cumbie v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1979
  5. Russell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1983

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Williams v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1986
  2. Sawyer v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District1989
  3. Leger v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)1989
  4. Jones v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1991

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