Legal Opinion

Morales v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided March 24, 1971No. 43357Published

1Opinion

ON APPELLANTS’ MOTION FOR REHEARING

MORRISON, Judge.

We first consider appellant Israel Morales’s motion for rehearing, having concluded that we must examine each appellant’s motion for rehearing separately.

When Israel took the stand, and admitted that he stabbed the deceased he testified that Brijido had not been involved in the fight, except to attempt to separate him from the deceased. He specifically denied that Brijido had kicked the deceased.

On cross-examination, the prosecutor asked Israel if he remembered saying in a ■prior written statement, “I kicked the boy and so did Brijido.”…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Jackson v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  2. Harris v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  3. Sims v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  4. Lopez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1964
  5. Joe Edward Smith v. The State of TexasCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968

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