Harris v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding evidence was insufficient to support mens rea when defendant never met victim prior to the day of the event and the victim could have given the appearance of “being normal”
• holding evidence insufficient to find that appellant knew complainant lacked sufficient mental capacity when he had just met her and “she could appear normal for a time” to person of limited education

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sanchez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-03-22· cited 21×
• State v. McDowell
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1983-02-22· cited 19×
• Martinez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1982-09-15· cited 14×
• Bradford v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-02-23· cited 12×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-10-19· cited 11×
• People v. Farrokhi
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-12-24· cited 11×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-09-21· cited 7×
• Joe William Meuret, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2016-07-20· cited 5×
• Garcia v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1982-04-14· cited 2×
• Urdiales v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-05-18· cited 1×
• Jose Francisco Samayoa v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-07-22
• Leonard Darnell Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2016-06-20