Legal Opinion
Chaney v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)
Decided May 27, 2010No. 07-08-0476-CRPublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PATRICK A. PIRTLE, Justice.
The contention that an injury can amount to a crime only when inflicted by intention is no provincial or transient notion. It is as universal and persistent in mature systems of law as belief in freedom of the human will and a consequent ability and duty of the normal individual to choose between good and evil.
Justice Robert H. Jackson, United States Supreme Court1
Appellant, Phillip Doyle Chaney, was convicted by a jury of murder -with an affirmative finding on use of a deadly weapon, to-wit: a firearm. Punishment was assessed at twenty-three years…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Almanza v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1985
- Malik v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
- Morissette v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Ngo v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2005
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3Cited by39 opinions
- Kristopher Donald Mixon v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)2015
- Fraser v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2017
- David Abran Anaya v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)2012
- Joseph Ross Miller v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)2012
- Juan Daniel Cano v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)2012
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