Legal Opinion

Van Buskirk v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided March 21, 1973No. 45881PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The conviction is for unlawfully passing as true a forged instrument; the punishment five years imprisonment.

The appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence and urges that the court erred in refusing to submit a charge on circumstantial evidence and in refusing to charge the jury that the witness Elwood Findley was an accomplice witness as a matter of law.

The court did submit to the jury a charge requiring the jury to determine as a fact issue whether the witness Elwood Findley was an accomplice witness.

A check in the amount of seventy-five dollars…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Gonzales v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1969
  2. Allen v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1970
  3. Lopez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1922
  4. Fields v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1968
  5. Olsen v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1968

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. McDonald v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1974
  2. Jackson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1974
  3. Cadd v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1979
  4. Bentley v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1975
  5. Thompson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1976

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