Campbell v. State

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• holding that the State proved the air pistol to be a deadly weapon because it was manifestly designed, made or adapted for the purpose of inflicting death or serious bodily injury, or was capable of causing death or serious bodily injury
• providing that an air pistol was considered a deadly weapon, even if it was unloaded, when defendant pointed it at complainant and threatened to kill complainant
• acknowledging that an “air pistol” may not be a “firearm,” given that an item is a “firearm” when the projectile is expelled through the use of energy generated by an explosion or burning substance
• finding sufficient evidence of an air pistol’s deadly-weapon status when testimony established that it could kill a person if fired at close range
• discussing expert ballistic testimony 5 regarding BB gun’s capacity to harm
• discussing expert ballistic testimony about potential harm from BB gun

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Adame v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-03-06· cited 133×
• Holder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-12-23· cited 57×
• McCravy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-12-08· cited 54×
• Vaughn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-06-16· cited 53×
• Riddick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1981-10-29· cited 35×
• Corte v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1982-06-02· cited 19×
• Dixon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1995-01-18· cited 18×
• Merlin James v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2012-04-19· cited 13×
• State v. Hardy
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2006-05-09· cited 11×
• Shelton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1999-10-04· cited 10×
• Kyle Edward Whatley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2008-06-12
• Thomas Elton Holder v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1992-08-26
• Irvin Omara Dixon v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1995-01-18
• Eliodoro De Jesus Perez v. State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2001-08-17
• Melvin Auston v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2014-03-27
• Jozef Kawaski Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2011-08-04
• Patrick E. Coleman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2014-05-27
• Lorenzo Alonzo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2014-04-07
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-03-03