Legal Opinion

Miles, Leonard

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided December 7, 2011No. PD-1708-08Published

1Opinion of the Court

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TEXAS NO. PD-1708-08 & PD-1709-08 LEONARD MILES, III, Appellant v. THE STATE OF TEXAS ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW FROM THE FIFTH COURT OF APPEALS DALLAS COUNTY K ELLER, P.J., filed a dissenting opinion in which H ERVEY, J., joined. Viewed from the correct perspective, this case is not as complicated as it might appear. A serious error occurred, but it was an error in the jury charge, not an insufficiency of the evidence. The indictment in the present case did not authorize a conviction for a Penalty Group 1 offense, so the sufficiency…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Malik v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
  2. Curry v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2000
  3. Duron v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
  4. Cada v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2011
  5. Geick v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2011

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