Jimmie Lee Hance, III v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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

• “statutes so worded presumptively use the word ‘may’ in the sense of . . . ‘is authorized or empowered’ ”
• “The police chief is vested with inherent authority to direct the operations of the police department . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).