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Hicks v. State

Citations

  • 372 S.W.3d 649
  • 2012 WL 2400758
  • 2012 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 865

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  • holding that reckless aggravated assault is a lesser-included offense of intentional or knowing aggravated assault
  • holding reckless bodily injury to a child is a lesser-included offense of intentional or knowing bodily injury to a child
  • explaining that conviction cannot be based on less culpable mental state than alleged in indictment, but may use less culpable mental state for lesser-included offense
  • reasoning that a \reckless\ assault is a lesser-included offense of a \knowing\ assault
  • holding separate instruction of aggravated assault by recklessly causing bodily injury was proper when 14 defendant was charged with aggravated assault by intentionally or knowingly using a deadly weapon
  • noting that for purposes of jury unanimity in this context, “the three culpable mental states are ‘conceptually equivalent’ because proof of the greater culpable mental state is necessarily proof of the lesser ones”

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Judges: Cochran

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