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Barber v. State

Citations

  • 764 S.W.2d 232
  • 1988 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 248
  • 1988 WL 129569

How courts have described this case

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

  • “ring leader” of organized criminal activity may “perform[] the overt act of soliciting and organizing others in furtherance of the combination”
  • combination existed when the defendants obtained operating capital, leased property, purchased trucks, hired drivers, opened bank accounts, and made arrangements to sell stolen oil
  • combination existed when the defendants obtained operating capital, leased property, purchased trucks, hired drivers, opened bank accounts, and made arrangements to sell stolen oil
  • In a § 15.02 criminal-conspiracy prosecution, \[o]ne person acting alone cannot commit conspiracy.\
  • “A person may be guilty of criminal conspiracy [as opposed to engaging in organized criminal activity] by doing nothing more than agreeing to participate in the conspiracy, as long as another conspirator commits some overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.”
  • applying prior law requiring five or more persons

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: McCormick, Clinton, Onion, Davis, White, Clark, Teague, Miller, Duncan

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

Cites

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Other cases named Barber v. State

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