Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas - October 2006 Opinion Summaries

State of Texas v. Kelly

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a driving while intoxicated case (DWI), a judgment of the court of appeals is affirmed where it properly reversed a trial court's order granting...

Miles v. State of Texas

Criminal Law & Procedure
A judgment of a court of appeals is affirmed in a felony aggregated theft case where it properly held that, although the trial court had erred in a...

Watson v. State of Texas

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
A court of appeals can not reverse a conviction on the basis of factual insufficiency of the evidence when it believes that the evidence preponderates...

Ex parte Gonzales

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
An application for habeas relief from the punishment portion of a judgment in a capital murder case is granted on grounds of ineffective assistance of...

Reynolds v. State of Texas

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
It is not a part of the predicate for the admissibility of breath test results, including intoxilyzer results, that the operator of the apparatus...

Buchanan v. State of Texas

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In an aggravated robbery case, a court of appeals' ruling that defendant's arrest violated Chapter 14 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure and that...

Davis v. State of Texas

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Defendant's conviction for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for attacking and trying to strangle his live-in girlfriend is affirmed where any...