# Cates v. State

> Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · June 7, 1989 · 776 S.W.2d 170

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9681230

## Case

- **Full name:** William Curtis CATES, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
- **Decided:** June 7, 1989
- **Citations:** 776 S.W.2d 170; 1989 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 126; 1989 WL 59560
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by McCORMICK
- **Judges:** Duncan, Teague, Campbell, Davis, White
- **Cited by:** 39 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the evidence gathered by a CPS worker was instrumental to the defendant’s arrest for child abuse

## Opinion text

*181 McCORMICK, Presiding Judge,
dissenting.
Believing that the Court of Appeals was completely correct, I would vote that the petition in this cause was improvidently granted.
I must, therefore, dissent to the judgment of this Court.
DAVIS and WHITE, JJ., join this dissent.

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