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Hernandez v. State

Citations

  • 946 S.W.2d 108
  • 1997 Tex. App. LEXIS 2077
  • 1997 WL 188879

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  • concluding that the necessity for surgery, alone, is insufficient to establish serious bodily injury
  • finding that scarring alone was insufficient to support a finding of serious bodily injury where there was no evidence that it created a “significant cosmetic deformity”
  • observing that “[d]isfigurement, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder”
  • finding evidence of one-inch scar from stab wound in addition to a surgical scar insufficient to “elevate ‘bodily injury’ to ‘serious bodily injury’ ”
  • finding evidence of one- inch scar from stab wound in addition to a surgical scar insufficient to “elevate ‘bodily injury’ to ‘serious bodily injury’”
  • finding evidence of one-inch scar from stab wound in addition to a surgical scar insufficient to “elevate ‘bodily injury’ to ‘serious bodily injury’ ”

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Judges: Barajas, Larsen, Chew

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