# Adkins v. State

> Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · October 1, 1986 · 717 S.W.2d 363

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9777771

## Case

- **Full name:** Sammy Joe ADKINS, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
- **Decided:** October 1, 1986
- **Citations:** 717 S.W.2d 363; 55 U.S.L.W. 2220; 1986 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 836
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Onion
- **Judges:** Davis, Onion, Teague
- **Cited by:** 29 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9777771

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the actual procurement of a warrant does not preclude use of exigent circumstances to justify a search in the event a warrant fails

## Opinion text

ONION, Judge,
dissenting.
I dissent to the remand to the Court of Appeals. The case has already been reversed on other grounds. I would decide the exigent circumstances question here. We needlessly keep too many cases in appellate orbit.

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