# Nichols v. State

> Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · April 13, 1988 · 754 S.W.2d 185

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9682129

## Case

- **Full name:** Joseph Bernard NICHOLS, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
- **Decided:** April 13, 1988
- **Citations:** 754 S.W.2d 185; 1988 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 67; 1988 WL 32004
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Teague
- **Judges:** White, Teague, Clinton, Campbell
- **Cited by:** 139 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Overruled on other grounds by Green v. State, 1989 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 7 (1989).
- Negative treatments: 3
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9682129

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that there is no coercion where appellant testified that he knew what he was doing but would not have been so easily persuaded had he not been intoxicated

## Opinion text

TEAGUE, J.,
dissents to the disposition of point of error number 5 (Lane’s brief), which concerns the trial judge’s erroneous sua sponte excusal of prospective juror Terry Hurzeler.

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Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9682129. Public record. Not legal advice.