# Dorsey v. State

> Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · December 3, 1969 · 450 S.W.2d 332

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9653729

## Case

- **Full name:** Dwain Douglas DORSEY, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
- **Decided:** December 3, 1969
- **Citations:** 450 S.W.2d 332; 1969 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 869
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Morrison
- **Judges:** Woodley, Onion, Morrison
- **Cited by:** 15 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

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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