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Cooper v. State

Citations

  • 67 S.W.3d 221
  • 2002 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 20
  • 2002 WL 122733

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  • concluding that evidence was sufficient to support that assault was committed in course of committing theft even though defendant alleged that he was hallucinating when he hit his uncle and then took his uncle’s truck
  • holding jury could have rationally disbelieved defendant’s self-serving testimony that he did not know what he was doing when he took the victim’s vehicle immediately after assault
  • relying on McGee v. State , 774 S.W.2d 229, 234 (Tex. Crim. App. 1989), which applied the same inference in a capital murder case
  • theft occurring immediately after a murder will support an inference that the murder occurred during the course of a robbery
  • theft occurring immediately after a murder will support an inference that the murder occurred during the course of a robbery
  • theft occurring immediately after a murder will support an inference that the murder occurred during the course of a robbery

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Judges: Keller, Womack, Keasler, Hervey, Holcomb, Meyers, Price, Johnson, Cochran

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