Opinion

MacDonald v. State

  • 761 S.W.2d 56
  • 1988 WL 108754
Court
Court of Appeals of Texas
Filed
Feb 22, 1989
Status
Published
Author
Brown
On the bench
Brown, Murphy, Robertson
Cited by
37 cases
Authority
More cited than 7.3%

The opinion

J. CURTISS BROWN, Justice,

dissenting.

I respectfully dissent.

Appellant’s point that the lesser included offense of assault presents a jury question which should have been submitted to the trier of fact is well founded. The jury was entitled to pick and choose between parts of the testimony. A combination of the officer’s evidence of assault and the defendant’s denial of knowledge of the police officer’s status was sufficient to raise the lesser included offense of assault. If evidence from any source raises the issue of a lesser included offense it must be included in the charge. Ojeda v. State, 712 S.W.2d 742, 744 (Tex.Crim.App.1986).

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