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· 4/19/1961

Hougton v. State

Citations

  • 171 Tex. Crim. 91
  • 345 S.W.2d 535
  • 1961 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 4347

How courts have described this case

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

  • “The Kentucky statute does not provide a blanket process for taking the testimony of every child witness by TV simply because testifying may be Stressful.”
  • \The Kentucky statute does not provide a blanket process for talcing the testimony of every child witness by TV simply because testifying may be stressful.\
  • no evidence of close relationship to create presumption of bias where juror realized that victim was his third cousin while she was testifying: “[F]amilial relationship was tenuous as evidenced by the juror not being initially aware of a relationship.”

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Judges: McDonald

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