Legal Opinion
Chaney v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)
Decided May 27, 2010No. 07-08-0476-CRPublished
1Opinion of the Court
314 S.W.3d 561 (2010)
Phillip Doyle CHANEY, Appellant,
v.
The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 07-08-0476-CR.
Court of Appeals of Texas, Amarillo, Panel D.
May 27, 2010.
David M. Crook, Crook & Jordan, Lubbock, for Appellant.
David W. Hajek, District Attorney, for Appellee.
Before QUINN, C.J., and CAMPBELL and PIRTLE, JJ.
OPINION
PATRICK A. PIRTLE, Justice.
The contention that an injury can amount to a crime only when inflicted by intention is no provincial or transient notion. It is as universal and persistent in mature systems of law as belief in freedom of the human will and a consequent ability and duty…
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2Cases cited28 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Almanza v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1985
- Malik v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
- Morissette v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Ngo v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2005
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