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Hampton v. State

Citations

  • 109 S.W.3d 437
  • 2003 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 160
  • 2003 WL 21508842

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  • holding that there must be some evidence directly pertaining to the lesser included offense for the jury to consider before an instruction is warranted
  • holding that before one is entitled to an instruction on a lesser-included offense, there must be “affirmative” evidence “directly germane” to the existence of the lesser-included offense
  • concluding that no affirmative evidence of the lesser-included offense was presented for the jury = s consideration to warrant an instruction when only evidence supporting proposition that no knife was used was the State = s failure to recover a knife
  • holding there must be some evidence directly pertaining to lesser-included offense for jury to consider before an instruction warranted
  • concluding State’s failure to recover knife was not affirmative evidence supporting contention no knife was used
  • holding there must be some evidence directly pertaining to lesser-included offense for jury to consider before an instruction warranted

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

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