Legal Opinion

Garza v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided June 13, 1985No. 13-84-244-CRPublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a murder conviction. Appellant admitted to shooting the deceased; however he asserted that the shooting was justified because it was done in the defense of a third party. Appellant was found guilty by a jury and punishment was assessed by the trial court at twenty-five years confinement. We affirm.

In his first, fourteenth, eighteenth, twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth grounds of error, appellant asserts fundamental error. Recently, in Almanza v. State, 686 S.W.2d 157 (Tex.Crim.App.1984), opinion on State’s motion for rehearing, the Court of…

2Cases cited23 opinions

  1. Almanza v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1985
  2. Ingham v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1984
  3. Blott v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1979
  4. Hernandez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1976
  5. Bradley v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1985

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Wallace v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1986

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