Lewis v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating, “[A] burglarious entry made with intent to commit theft is the complete theft, whether any theft is actually perpetrated thereafter.”
• “It is well settled that the intent to commit theft may be inferred from the circumstances.”
• defendant‘s presence inside home, in addition to movement of property from a closed cupboard, was sufficient to show an intent to commit theft despite absence of stolen 4 property on defendant‘s person
• to sustain burglary conviction, it is only necessary to 12 prove the unlawful entry was made for the purpose of committing theft; therefore the State need no prove that the defendant took anything of value after the unlawful entry was made

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-06-10· cited 698×
• DeVaughn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-04-13· cited 294×
• In re A.S.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1997-09-11· cited 96×
• Baker v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1998-12-30· cited 72×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-06-08· cited 35×
• Davis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1990-01-04· cited 23×
• Mathew v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1992-07-30· cited 8×
• Menke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-11-05· cited 7×
• Matter of As
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1997-09-11· cited 6×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-11-25· cited 1×
• Cesar Flores v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2004-10-07
• Carl Eugene Nowlin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-12-15
• Ray Norris Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2002-05-16
• Monardes, Jaime v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2002-10-31
• Kenneth Tyrone Branch v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2009-02-18
• Donald Wayne Young v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2009-10-08
• Adrian Vincent Duncan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-04-03
• Eudalia Bonilla v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2010-06-03
• Jeffrey Edward Allen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2015-03-31
• Kelly MacK Lambeth v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2014-07-10

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Houston v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-02-01· cited 426×
• Jackson v. State of Texas
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-07-18· cited 197×
• Ex Parte Cannon
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-11-10· cited 161×
• Robles v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-02-15· cited 125×
• Templin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-04-23· cited 121×
• Ortega v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-12-08· cited 87×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-10-11· cited 59×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-06-23· cited 56×
• Stearn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-09-27· cited 52×
• Hawkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-07-28· cited 23×
• Baker v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1981-12-22· cited 13×
• Warren v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-05-11· cited 13×
• Warren v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1982-07-27· cited 12×
• Gibson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1968-12-11· cited 11×
• Rodgers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1957-01-16· cited 7×
• Daniels v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1983-05-26· cited 4×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1985-06-19· cited 1×