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Cary v. State

Citations

  • 507 S.W.3d 750
  • 2016 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1513
  • 2016 WL 7856534

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that because argument is not evidence, it is “of no consequence in a sufficiency analysis”
  • observing that “[t]he arguments of the parties and their trial theories are not evidence”
  • stating that “arguments of the parties and their trial theories are not evidence”
  • stating that “arguments of the parties and their trial theories are not evidence”
  • “[N]otwithstanding a court’s deference to the jury’s credibility and weight determinations, the jury’s finding of guilt must be a rational one in light of all of the evidence presented at trial.”
  • “The necessary specific intent can be proven through circumstantial evidence, and we may rely on events that took place before, during, or after the commission of the offense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Alcala, Hervey, Johnson, Keasler, Keller, Meyers, Newell, Richardson, Yeary

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

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

Other cases named Cary v. State

12 other CourtListener records share this case name.

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