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Arteaga v. State

Citations

  • 521 S.W.3d 329
  • 2017 WL 2457432
  • 2017 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 533

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • explaining that when court determines that jury charge error exists, court then determines whether defendant was harmed by error
  • explaining that we construe statutes according to their plain meaning unless such construction would lead to absurd results
  • stating that “[t]he legislature intended for the State to prove facts constituting bigamy whenever . . . the State invokes [s]ection 22.011(f)”
  • stating that “it was the State’s responsibility to prove that Arteaga was ‘prohibited from marrying the victim . . . under [s]ection 25.01’”
  • characterizing reversal and remand for a new trial as the “normative remedy” where harmful jury charge error has been found
  • stating “[t]he legislature intended for the State to prove facts constituting bigamy whenever . . . the State invokes [s]ection 22.011(f)”

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Judges: Alcala, Hervey, Keel, Keller, Newell, Richardson, Walker, Yeary

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Cites

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