# Shannon v. State

> Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · December 11, 1996 · 942 S.W.2d 591

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9660118

## Case

- **Full name:** Willie Marcel SHANNON, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
- **Decided:** December 11, 1996
- **Citations:** 942 S.W.2d 591; 1996 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 247; 1996 WL 709370
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Baird
- **Judges:** Meyers, Baird, Overstreet, McCormick, Clinton, White, Maloney
- **Cited by:** 203 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9660118

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that prosecutor’s improper remark calling defendant “a sociopath” was isolated and any error in denying mistrial was cured by prompt instruction to disregard
- concluding that a challenge to jury note-taking was not preserved for review where no objection was made
- noting that this Court has “previously addressed and rejected constitutional challenges” to this statutory language “on numerous occasions”

## Opinion text

BAIRD, J.,
concurs. For the reasons stated in Morris v. State, 940 S.W.2d 610 , — (Tex.Cr.App.1996) (Baird, J., dissenting), I disagree with the treatment of appellant’s point of error twelve. Consequently, I join only the judgment of the Court.

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