Allen v. State

This cause began as an ordinary revocation of probation matter, but has since become a forum for competitive semantical exercises in articulating and applying the *9proper standard for review of an order revoking probation. Allen v. State, 786 S.W.2d 738 (Tex.App. — Fort Worth 1989).1 The bout below was between counsel who must have pretermitted consulting precedents of earlier germane cases — on the one hand, advancing what is hoped will be a “white horse case;” on the other, ultimately seeking to create a new rule to curtail appellate review.

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