# Reynolds v. State

> Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · November 5, 1986 · 723 S.W.2d 685

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9638415

## Case

- **Full name:** Thomas Venton REYNOLDS, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
- **Decided:** November 5, 1986
- **Citations:** 723 S.W.2d 685; 1986 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 866
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Onion
- **Judges:** Tom G. Davis
- **Cited by:** 10 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- concluding that the State’s failure to allege the specific manner or means of restraint when two alternative methods for committing one offense are provided by statute, i.e., moving a person from one place to another or by confinement, makes an indictment defective and subject…

## Opinion text

ONION, Presiding Judge,
dissenting.
I agree that the trial court erred in overruling the appellant’s motion to quash the indictment, but I would reverse the conviction. I do not agree with Adams v. State, 707 S.W.2d 900 (Tex.Cr.App.1986). If, however, Adams is to be applied, it should be applied here. The case should not be remanded to the Court of Appeals. Ping pong justice does nothing to promote the finality of judgments in criminal cases.
TEAGUE, J., joins in this dissent.

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