Opinion

Royster v. State

  • 622 S.W.2d 442
  • 1981 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1151
Court
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Filed
Sep 23, 1981
Status
Published
Author
Clinton
On the bench
Dally, Davis, Clinton, Odom, Roberts, Teague
Cited by
679 cases

holding that defendant was not entitled to charge on lesser-included offense of aggravated assault when only evidence was that the victim saw defendant run off with a woman’s purse, the victim gave chase, and the defendant slashed at him with a knife

How later courts described this case

  • holding that defendant was not entitled to charge on lesser-included offense of aggravated assault when only evidence was that the victim saw defendant run off with a woman’s purse, the victim gave chase, and the defendant slashed at him with a knife
  • explaining that, depending upon the facts proven, aggravated assault can be a lesser included offense of aggravated robbery
  • explaining that depending upon facts proven, aggravated assault can be lesser included offense of aggravated robbery
  • holding adopted by majority of court in Aguilar v. State, 682 S.W.2d 556 (Tex.Crim.App.1985)

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

CLINTON, Judge,

dissenting.

For the reasons given in my dissenting opinion on original submission, I continue to urge careful reexamination of the “guilty only” test of Daywood-McBrayer and, therefore, dissent to its application here.

ROBERTS and TEAGUE, JJ., join.

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