Legal Opinion
Vick v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided February 24, 1999No. 367-98PublishedCited by 344 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
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2Opinion of the Court · KellerKeller, J.
in which McCORMICK, P.J., and PRICE, HOLLAND, WOMACK, and KEASLER, JJ., joined.
The question in this case is whether double jeopardy protection under the constitutions of Texas and the United States applies to prevent multiple prosecutions based on alleged violations of the same statute during the same criminal transaction. Appellee was tried and acquitted of aggravated sexual assault. He was then indicted for aggravated sexual assault based on the same transaction, but different manners of committing the offense were alleged. The trial court granted ap-pellee’s motion to dismiss the…
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