Opinion

Brown v. State

  • 692 S.W.2d 497
  • 1985 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1400
Court
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Filed
Jun 26, 1985
Status
Published
Author
Onion
On the bench
Miller, Clinton, McCormick
Cited by
118 cases

holding that the appellant failed to preserve error regarding a Apen packet@ offered into evidence during the punishment phase of trial when appellant=s attorney stated, AWe object to each and every reference in the exhibit to probation and ask the court to strike the same out.@

How later courts described this case

  • holding that the appellant failed to preserve error regarding a Apen packet@ offered into evidence during the punishment phase of trial when appellant=s attorney stated, AWe object to each and every reference in the exhibit to probation and ask the court to strike the same out.@
  • holding that permissible areas of jury argument are a summation of the evidence, a reasonable deduction from the evidence, an answer to opposing counsel's argument, and a plea for law enforcement
  • finding that instruction cured effects of prosecutor’s question about defendant’s probation revocation
  • noting that mere asking of improper question is not reversible error unless it results in obvious harm to accused

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

*503 ONION, Presiding Judge,

dissenting.

I would sustain the State’s ground of review and overrule appellant’s grounds for review.

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