Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas - April 2003 Opinion Summaries

EX PARTE VALLE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Juvenile Law
A juvenile's application for post-conviction writ of habeas corpus under Code of Criminal Procedure article 11.07 is dismissed because juvenile...

RAMIREZ v. STATE OF TEXAS

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure
Because a document was attached to a notice of appeal, it was part of the allegations pled in the notice, and therefore the Court of Appeals could...

PENNYWELL v. STATE OF TEXAS

Criminal Law & Procedure
Per Curiam.

MIDDLETON v. STATE OF TEXAS

Criminal Law & Procedure
Failure to define the term "probable cause" was not error, because the jury did not need the definition where the only issue involved in the...

MCGEE v. STATE OF TEXAS

Criminal Law & Procedure
A visual body cavity search resulting in crack cocaine being retrieved from between defendant's buttocks was a reasonable search incident to arrest.

DYAR v. STATE OF TEXAS

Criminal Law & Procedure
Under the totality of the circumstances, facts in relation to a traffic accident and a hospital made the hospital a "suspicious place" authorizing a...

CATES v. STATE OF TEXAS

Criminal Law & Procedure
Evidence was insufficient to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that a truck was used or exhibited as a deadly weapon during the offense of failure...

YEAGER v. STATE OF TEXAS

Criminal Law & Procedure
There was an immediate and continuous pursuit of appellant from the scene of a crime, when the police began and continued to follow the intoxicated...

CARROLL v. STATE OF TEXAS

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure
It is within the court of appeals' scope of review on remand to reconsider a particular point of error, and decide it based on grounds not expressly...