Ashley v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a victim’s widow’s outcry during closing argument was not prejudicial because it had “no bearing” on the murder or claim of self-defense
• holding no injury to Ashley shown by statement to widow of murder victim that was not in evidence because trial court gave sua sponte instruction to jury to disregard statement and statement did not contradict Ashley’s testimony
• finding that victim’s mother’s outcry during defense’s closing argument did not necessitate mistrial
• holding no injury to Ashley shown by statement to widow of murder victim that was not in evidence because trial court gave sua sponte instruction to jury to disregard statement and statement did not contradict Ashley's testimony
• same where victim’s widow made outcry during closing arguments and trial court instructed jury to disregard statement and incident
• emotional verbal outburst by deceased's widow

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

32 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Gamboa v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-04-08· cited 469×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-12-18· cited 341×
• Romo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-07-19· cited 137×
• Briddle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-23· cited 136×
• Port v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-04-25· cited 48×
• Nguyen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1998-08-31· cited 46×
• Palasota v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-10-28· cited 43×
• Chase v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-01-16· cited 33×
• Jose Guadelupe Guerrero v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-07-20· cited 15×
• McClure v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-01-17· cited 13×
• Boyd v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1989-10-04· cited 11×
• State v. Boone
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1991-10-18· cited 10×
• Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1983-09-21· cited 9×
• Port v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-28· cited 6×
• State v. Daniel Joe Hernandez
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2011-12-23· cited 5×
• R.L.S., Matter Of
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1978-12-29· cited 4×
• State v. Romero
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-12-28· cited 1×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-05-03· cited 1×
• Matter of Rls
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1978-12-29
• Agustin Antonio Alfaro v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-12-07

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Valtiero v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1949-02-23· cited 19×
• Mohler v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1924-10-15· cited 5×
• Bazanno v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1910-12-07· cited 4×