# Gosch v. State

> Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · December 18, 1991 · 829 S.W.2d 775

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9857636

## Case

- **Full name:** Lesley Lee GOSCH, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
- **Decided:** December 18, 1991
- **Citations:** 829 S.W.2d 775; 1991 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 281; 1991 WL 264601
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Clinton
- **Judges:** McCormick, Clinton, Baird
- **Cited by:** 171 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/9857636

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that although motive is not element of offense, State is entitled to prove motive “if it is relevant as a circumstance tending to prove the commission of the offense.”
- finding that the appellant’s attempted flight was a factor that tended to connect him to the murder
- holding that evidence of withdrawing cash with intent to flee country probative of intent to murder
- holding defendant=s trial counsel was not ineffective by failing to object to admissible evidence

## Opinion text

CLINTON, J.,
dissents for reasons given in his dissenting opinion in Ex Parte Bower, 823 S.W.2d 284 (Tex.Cr.App.1991).

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