Legal Opinion

Hopper v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided January 14, 2016No. 02-14-00467-CRPublishedCited by 25 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

LEE GABRIEL, JUSTICE

A jury convicted appellant William Preston Hopper of continuous family violence with a deadly weapon, i.e., his hands, and the trial court sentenced him to life imprisonment as a-habitual felony offender. ’See Tex. Penal Code Ann.- § 12.42(d) • (West Supp.2015), § 25,11 (West 2011). In two points, Hopper challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the deadly-weapon finding and argues that the State’s jury argument was improper. Although we overrule both issues, we sua sponte modify the trial court’s judgment to reflect that the trial court assessed…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. French v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1992
  2. McCain v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2000
  3. Archie v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2007
  4. Young v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2004
  5. Wead v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2004

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3Cited by25 opinions

  1. Davis v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2017
  2. Alfred Alan Goodemote v. the State of Texas, Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)2021
  3. Armando David Fernandez v. the State of Texas, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2024
  4. Calvin Wilson Graves v. the State of Texas, Texas Court of Appeals, 2nd District (Fort Worth)2023
  5. Carlos Topps v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 2nd District (Fort Worth)2019

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