Legal Opinion
Curry v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided September 20, 2000No. 1521-99PublishedCited by 1,644 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · KeaslerKeasler, J.
in which McCORMICK, P.J., and MANSFIELD, KELLER, PRICE, HOLLAND, and WOMACK, J.J., joined.
The State’s indictment of Steven Curry charged him with aggravated kidnapping “by using and threatening to use deadly force namely, a firearm.” Over Curry’s objection, the trial court permitted the State to delete this phrase after trial began. We must decide whether the trial court erred in allowing this deletion, and whether a sufficiency analysis should include this allegation. We conclude that once the State made this allegation, it had to prove it. We also conclude that the sufficiency of the…
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