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Crumpton v. State

Citations

  • 301 S.W.3d 663
  • 2009 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1738
  • 2009 WL 4640622

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that 3 verdict’s reference to indictment, which expressly alleged a deadly weapon, constituted a finding that the allegation was true
  • concluding that the trial court properly included a deadly-weapon finding in its judgment where the jury necessarily found that the defendant used a deadly weapon in committing homicide
  • holding the jury’s guilty verdict in a criminally-negligent homicide case was an adequate basis for the trial court to enter an affirmative deadly weapon finding in the judgment
  • holding jury necessarily found defendant used a deadly weapon because a deadly weapon is something that, in the manner of its use, is capable of causing death, and jury found defendant did, in fact, cause death
  • “Having found that the defendant was guilty of homicide, the jury necessarily found that the defendant used something that in the manner of its use was capable of causing-and did cause-death”
  • “Having found that the defendant was guilty of homicide, the jury necessarily found that the defendant used something that in the manner of its use was capable of causing—and did cause—death.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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

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