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Graham v. State

Citations

  • 657 S.W.2d 99
  • 1983 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1088

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  • holding that acts of speeding, racing, and ignoring a steady red traffic control was legally and factually sufficient evidence to support conviction for criminally negligent homicide
  • concluding that defendant driver’s failure to perceive risk of death from his conduct of speeding, racing, and ignoring red light was clearly gross deviation from ordinary standard of care
  • holding that acts of speeding, racing, and ignoring a steady red traffic control was legally and factually sufficient evidence to support conviction for criminally negligent homicide
  • concluding that defendant driver’s failure to perceive risk of death from his conduct of speeding, racing, and ignoring red light was clearly gross deviation from ordinary standard of care
  • holding that an instruction on criminally negligent homicide is proper when the defendant fails to perceive the risk of resulting death which rises to the level of gross deviation from an ordinary standard of care
  • holding that an instruction on criminally negligent homicide is proper when the defendant fails to perceive the risk of resulting death which rises to the level of gross deviation from an ordinary standard of care

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Judges: Clinton, Teague, Miller, Campbell

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