Bruno v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that jury would have been required to disbelieve appellant’s story before it could find sufficient evidence to convict, thus the instruction need not have been given
• stating that jury would have been required to disbelieve appellant’s story before it could find sufficient evidence to convict, thus the instruction need not have been given
• mistake of fact charge properly refused where owner's testimony that he did not give defendant consent was contradicted by defendant's testimony that owner did give consent; if defendant's testimony was true, there was no mistake of fact
• trial court properly instructed jury that the State had the burden of disproving defendant’s mistake of fact defense beyond a reasonable doubt where defendant claimed that he mistakenly believed that he had consent to operate the victim’s vehicle

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Luquis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-04-10· cited 343×
• Okonkwo, Chidiebele Gabriel
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-05-15· cited 181×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-10· cited 169×
• Sands v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2001-11-12· cited 62×
• Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1996-09-12· cited 44×
• Traylor v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2001-05-02· cited 31×
• Roy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2004-07-20· cited 31×
• Juan Jose Reyes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2013-10-31· cited 26×
• Okonkwo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-01-18· cited 13×
• James Alan Jenkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-06-04· cited 13×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-02-25· cited 13×
• Mayfield v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-02-11· cited 12×
• Lee v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1995-07-19· cited 8×
• In re S.S.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2005-04-20· cited 8×
• Bertrand v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2000-07-06· cited 6×
• In Re SS
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2005-04-20
• Vance Galvin Allen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-06-09
• in the Matter of K.D.F.
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2005-11-03
• Hank Williams Sigsby v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1993-06-02
• Reginald Parker v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1994-11-23

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McQueen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-11-08· cited 330×
• Oakley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-04-22· cited 173×
• Gardner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-11-08· cited 67×
• Musgrave v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-12-23· cited 41×
• Bruno v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1991-09-11· cited 14×