# Williams v. State

> Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · November 26, 2008 · 270 S.W.3d 112

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9656838

## Case

- **Full name:** Clifton WILLIAMS, Appellant v. the STATE of Texas
- **Court:** Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
- **Decided:** November 26, 2008
- **Citations:** 270 S.W.3d 112; 2008 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1446; 2008 WL 5047664
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Womack
- **Judges:** Hervey, Keller, Meyers, Womack, Keasler, Holcomb, Cochran, Price, Johnson
- **Cited by:** 49 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- reasoning that evidence that the appellant had “broke[n] into the home of and viciously attacked and murdered” an elderly woman supported a finding of future dangerousness
- noting this Court’s adoption of the AAMR definition of intellectual disability, which is defined, in part, as “an IQ ‘of about 70’ or below”

## Opinion text

WOMACK, J.,
filed a concurring opinion.
I join the Court’s opinion, ante. I write to emphasize that we have not been asked to decide whether the instruction on mental retardation violated Article 36.14 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which requires the trial judge to deliver a written charge “setting forth the law” and “not summing up the testimony, [or] discussing the facts .... ”

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