Legal Opinion · Dissent

Orozco v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided April 3, 1957No. 28877Published

1DissentDavidson, Judge

In the development of its case in chief and after having proven by the autopsy surgeon that deceased was dead as a result of gunshot wounds, the state introduced as a witness the wife of deceased and, over the objection of appellant, proved by her that she and deceased had three children, a boy and two girls, whose names she gave, ranging in age from two years to five months at the time of trial, which would make the youngest child about one month old at the time of the death of her father, the deceased.

It is insisted by appellant that such testimony constituted reversible error.

That…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Walder v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
  2. Kemp v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1952
  3. Lampkin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1905
  4. Skelton v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1927
  5. Jackson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1951

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