Legal Opinion

Johnson v. State

Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District

Decided January 27, 1993No. 13-91-471-CRPublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

GILBERTO HINOJOSA, Justice.

Appellant, Gerald Johnson, was indicted for the offense of escape. See Tex.Penal Code Ann. § 38.07 (Vernon 1985). A jury convicted him and assessed punishment at forty years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division. By two points of error, appellant complains that the trial court erred in holding the trial while he was in jail clothing, and that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the conviction. We affirm.

The evidence showed that appellant and a female friend entered a store to cash a check. The payee on the check was a person…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Florida v. RoyerSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  3. United States v. MendenhallSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  4. California v. Hodari D.Supreme Court of the United States · 1991
  5. Estelle v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1976

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3Cited by18 opinions

  1. Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1995
  2. Bell v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1994
  3. Mungia v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District1995
  4. Lantrip v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2011
  5. Scott v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2002

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