Jones v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, where defendant had poured methamphetamine into a bottle of bleach, the bleach could be used to determine the aggregate weight of the methamphetamine 4 Indeed, section 481.002(5
• holding that, where defendant had poured methamphetamine into bottle of bleach, the bleach could be used to determine aggregate weight of methamphetamine “[r]egardless of when, how, or why it was added”
• concluding that when defendant’s accomplice poured liquid methamphetamine into bottle of bleach hoping to destroy the drug during police pursuit, bleach was “added to or mixed with” the controlled substance and could be added to aggregate weight
• explaining that if “the evidence clearly warrants conviction independent of the accomplice testimony, the trial court’s failure to instruct on the law of accomplice testimony is not reversible error”
• explaining that if “the evidence clearly warrants conviction independent of the accomplice testimony, the trial court’s failure to instruct on the law of accomplice testimony is not reversible error”
• jury is free to believe or disbelieve a witness in whole or in part

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

30 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Vafaiyan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2008-12-18· cited 56×
• Jeannie Coutta v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2012-10-17· cited 18×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2009-01-29· cited 9×
• Ripstra v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-12-29· cited 9×
• Vincent John Zahorik v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-08-25· cited 1×
• Erick Eugene Ford v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2015-01-28
• Reza Vafaiyan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2008-12-18
• Jerry Wayne Gilmore v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2008-03-13
• Lamont Terrell Leadon v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2009-06-25
• Stephen Ray Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2009-01-29
• Phyllis Woodall v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2009-09-09
• Sherry Lynn Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2008-11-13
• John B. Isbell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2015-03-26
• Derek Michael Alexander v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2013-10-31
• Andre Wayne Vittatoe v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2014-02-25
• Rodney Nathaniel Boone v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2014-03-13
• Bryan Jeremiah Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2012-11-01
• Richard Allan Gard v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2012-08-30
• Simmons, Delvin Bernhard v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2013-02-20
• Modesto Lopez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2012-10-25

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Melton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-10-15· cited 105×
• Seals v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-11-16· cited 95×
• Cawthon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-10-14· cited 57×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2006-05-25· cited 45×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-09-20· cited 20×