Opinion

Woods v. State

  • 653 S.W.2d 1
  • 1983 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1075
Court
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Filed
Jul 6, 1983
Status
Published
Author
Odom
On the bench
Odom, Onion, Roberts, McCormick, Davis, Teague
Cited by
42 cases

holding circumstantial evidence sufficient to show robbery committed using and exhibiting pistol when complainant did not see gun but felt it poked into his side and defendant stated he had gun

How later courts described this case

  • holding circumstantial evidence sufficient to show robbery committed using and exhibiting pistol when complainant did not see gun but felt it poked into his side and defendant stated he had gun
  • holding litigant must object to trial court comments
  • where defendant told the victim he had a gun, and defendant later fired shots at an off-duty police officer
  • Opinion on State’s Motion for Rehearing

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

ODOM, Judge,

dissenting.

For the reasons stated in the opinion on original submission, I dissent.

TOM G. DAVIS and TEAGUE, JJ., join this opinion.

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