Legal Opinion
Davis v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 10th District (Waco)
Decided March 26, 2003No. 10-00-189-CRPublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
REX D. DAVIS, Chief Justice.
A jury convicted Vincent Edward Davis of assaulting his eight-year-old stepson by spanking him with an extension cord. The court assessed Davis’s punishment at ninety days’ confinement and a $4,000 fine, suspended imposition of sentence, and placed him on community supervision for twenty-four months. Davis contends in a single point that the court abused its discretion by excluding evidence of his stepson’s school disciplinary records which Davis offered to support his defense that he reasonably believed that spanking with the extension cord was necessary to…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- O'NEAL v. McAninchSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- Mozon v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1999
- Potier v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2002
- Torres v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2002
- Rey v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1995
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3Cited by22 opinions
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- Walters v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2006
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