Dorsett v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding similar proof sufficient where the jury has the opportunity to observe accused and determine by comparison with the description in the record whether he is the same person previously convicted
• stating that evidence was held sufficient when the jury had the opportunity to observe the accused and determine by comparison with the description in the record whether he is the same person previously convicted
• stating that evidence was held sufficient when the jury had the opportunity to observe the accused and determine by comparison with the description in the record whether he is the same person previously convicted
• stating that evidence was held sufficient when the jury had the opportunity to observe the accused and determine by comparison with the description in the record whether he is the same person previously convicted
• finding sufficient evidence to link defendant to prior conviction when jury had the opportunity to observe defendant and determine by comparison with the description in the record — date of birth, race, hair and eye color, weight, and height — whether he is the same person previously convicted
• a jury may compare its in-court observation of a defendant to either a photograph or a description of a perpetrator to support the element of identity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Littles v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-03-11· cited 204×
• Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1997-06-04· cited 108×
• Paschall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2009-04-02· cited 64×
• Gollin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-06-29· cited 44×
• Riley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1966-10-05· cited 6×
• Matthew Tomlinson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-06-15
• Anthony Paschall v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2009-04-02
• Allison Holiday Coward v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2013-07-17
• Michael L. Jordan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2014-06-26
• Roy Brown v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2017-07-20
• Charles Earl Martin v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2023-04-27
• Kenneth Ray Chatman v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2023-12-13
• Joey Harper v. State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2023-12-21

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hightower v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1965-04-07· cited 8×
• Jean v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1962-05-30· cited 5×