Opinion

Dorsey v. State

  • 450 S.W.2d 332
  • 1969 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 869
Court
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Filed
Dec 3, 1969
Status
Published
Author
Morrison
On the bench
Woodley, Onion, Morrison
Cited by
15 cases

Dissenting Opinions, Onion, J., Morrison, J.

How later courts described this case

  • Dissenting Opinions, Onion, J., Morrison, J.

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

MORRISON, Judge

(dissenting).

I concur in that portion of my brother Onion's dissent in which he says that the argument complained of “did not recommend life or 99 years as a proper punishment based on the evidence, but urged such penalty in view of how the parole law operated.”

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