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Hines v. State

Citations

  • 906 S.W.2d 518
  • 1995 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 92
  • 1995 WL 552826

How courts have described this case

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

  • plugging definition of “another” from Penal Code section 1.07(a)(4) into section 21.07 when conducting statutory interpretation of public lewdness statute
  • plugging definition of “another” from Penal Code section 1.07(a)(4) into section 21.07 when conducting statutory interpretation of public lewdness statute
  • “Broadening our focus to the statute as a whole, we derive two reasons that application of Section 21.07 to the facts of this case is not as ‘plain’ as the State would have it,- the statutory definition of ‘another’ notwithstanding.”
  • “[W]e are bound to construe Penal Code provisions in light of definitions in the Penal Code itself.”
  • court of appeals bound to construe Texas Penal Code provisions in light of definitions in penal code itself
  • parallelism between two statutory theories of public lewdness relevant to construing the second theory

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Judges: Clinton, Overstreet

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