Dingler v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing allowable practice of alleging ownership in “a natural person acting for the corporation”
• noting that there was “no evidence in the record of appeal that would establish the employment relationship of White [the alleged owner] to the warehouse location, which is where the burglary occurred”
• “rule of ‘idem sonans’ is that absolute accuracy in spelling a name is not required”; if misspelled name sounds “practically identical with the correct name,” misspelling sufficiently identifies the person to whom it refers
• “The State of Texas is not permitted under our law to prove its allegations through speculation, guesses, or surmises, but is required to prove its allegations beyond a reasonable doubt . . . .”
• “[W]hen property referred to in a charging instrument belongs to a corporation, it is not only permissible but the better pleading practice to allege ownership in a natural person acting for the corporation, the true owner of the property.”
• “This Court has long held that when property referred to in a charging instrument belongs to a corporation, it is not only permissible but the better pleading practice to allege ownership in a natural person acting for the corporation, the true owner of the property.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Byrd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-03-30· cited 373×
• Freeman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-04-02· cited 145×
• Williams v. Collins
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-03-07· cited 83×
• Alexander v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-05-18· cited 59×
• Cockrell v. Estevez
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-16· cited 51×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-02-11· cited 44×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1988-11-16· cited 36×
• Lundstrom v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-04-08· cited 18×
• Polk v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1986-01-30· cited 18×
• Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2006-02-03· cited 17×
• Chumney v. Craig
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1991-03-14· cited 16×
• Long v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1999-12-22· cited 15×
• Obeidat v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-04-18· cited 4×
• Granado v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-03-31· cited 2×
• Carrie Mae Abiola v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2015-07-23
• Gary Don Robinson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1992-09-23
• Bryson Lee McClinton v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1993-04-14
• Leonard Hamilton, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1994-04-13
• Steven Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2006-02-03
• Syd Houston Otey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2007-04-25

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hudson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-02-22· cited 318×
• Compton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-10-08· cited 119×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-10-06· cited 91×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-06-23· cited 56×
• McGee v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-11-01· cited 37×
• Eaton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-02-18· cited 35×
• Walling v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-02-19· cited 35×
• Flanagan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-06-10· cited 32×
• Cross v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-12· cited 22×
• Grant v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-07-19· cited 21×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1887-11-09· cited 14×
• Thurmond v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1891-12-16· cited 11×