Frank 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 that a “charge which is confined only to the right of self-defense against the deceased is too restrictive if there is evidence that more than one person attacked the defendant.”
• holding presentation of special requested instruction and trial court’s subsequent denial of requested 8 instruction were sufficient to preserve error under 36.15
• noting defendant may be “entitled to a charge on the right of self-defense against multiple assailants”
• defendant is entitled to a charge on the right of self-defense against multiple assailants if there is evidence that he was in danger of an unlawful attack or a threatened attack at the hands of more than one assailant
• “[A] defendant is entitled to a charge on the right of self- defense against multiple assailants if ‘there is evidence, viewed from the accused’s standpoint, that he was in danger of an unlawful attack or a threatened attack at the hands of more than one assailant.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Trevino v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-02-26· cited 279×
• Loun v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2008-11-20· cited 74×
• Mata v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1997-02-05· cited 56×
• Yarborough v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2006-02-15· cited 40×
• Jeremy Deshawn Dugar v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-04-09· cited 29×
• State v. Cooper
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1999-10-29· cited 20×
• Kemph v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1999-11-24· cited 19×
• Sanders v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2002-01-29· cited 19×
• John Anthony Lopez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-02-04· cited 19×
• State v. Mangum
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2013-01-08· cited 19×
• Lerma v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1991-06-19· cited 13×
• Tanguma v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1986-10-30· cited 12×
• Gerardo Echavarria, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2011-12-30· cited 11×
• Dickey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1998-11-12· cited 10×
• Allen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-10-10· cited 4×
• Cecil Weldon Holland v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2015-11-30· cited 2×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-06-05· cited 2×
• Kimberly Lynn Allen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-01-11
• Gerald Paul Hamilton v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2009-06-11
• Dana A. McCray v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2009-03-26

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lugo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-03-14· cited 252×
• Warren v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-05-24· cited 141×
• Booth v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-06-13· cited 117×
• Hackbarth v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-07-01· cited 113×
• DeBolt v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-07-16· cited 80×
• Sanders v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-05-12· cited 37×