Dixon v. State

I respectfully dissent. With judgments of the defendant’s prior convictions for robbery and kidnapping (violent and potentially violent and coercive offenses) having been introduced into evidence, the honorable trial judge was of the opinion that the argument was a reasonable deduction from the evidence as sanctioned in Denison v. State, 651 S.W.2d 754 (Tex.Crim.App.1983). The judge provided counsel the reason for his ruling with his mind focused on his legal rationale. He pronounced his ruling in valid terms of the law addressing the admissibility of evidence. Much like the judge’s action in…