Lackey 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 trial court’s jurisdiction to proceed on felony information requires valid waiver of indictment
• requiring only that a waiver of indictment be made intelligently, voluntarily, and knowingly while represented by counsel
• because a defendant must personally waive the right to be accused by indictment, silence on the record cannot be construed as a waiver
• defendant must personally waive the right to be accused by indictment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Garcia v. Dial
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-04-02· cited 442×
• Brasfield v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-06-18· cited 278×
• Cook v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-06-28· cited 257×
• Ford v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2001-03-08· cited 89×
• Acosta v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-06-01· cited 57×
• Labelle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-06-26· cited 49×
• Fain v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1999-03-04· cited 40×
• Ex Parte Long
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-11-22· cited 37×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1991-01-23· cited 34×
• Ex Parte Smith
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-02-03· cited 33×
• Garza v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1985-07-17· cited 33×
• Martinez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1999-08-18· cited 29×
• Crawford v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-09-30· cited 26×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2001-02-08· cited 23×
• Padgett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-01-25· cited 20×
• Ex Parte Hunter
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-09-10· cited 20×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-03-17· cited 14×
• Bunton v. Bentley
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 1999-12-30· cited 13×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-03-31· cited 13×
• Dedonato v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1990-04-05· cited 8×