Legal Opinion
Adams v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided January 31, 1979No. 60037PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DALLY, Judge.
This is an appeal from a conviction for capital murder. The punishment was assessed at death.
Appellant’s brief contains forty grounds of error in which he contends that: (1) the trial court erred in refusing to admit evidence of extraneous criminal offenses committed by the State’s chief witness, David Harris, and in restricting appellant’s cross-examination of another State witness, Teresa Turko; (2) the prosecutor improperly withheld a statement made to the police by witness Emily Miller; (3) the trial court erroneously refused to permit appellant to ask venire members…
2Cases cited46 opinions
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3Cited by72 opinions
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