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Lovill v. State

Citations

  • 319 S.W.3d 687
  • 2009 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1754
  • 2009 WL 4827511

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that contention urged on appeal must match with specific complaint made in trial court to preserve error for review
  • holding that an objection is only timely if “made as soon as the ground for complaint is apparent or should be apparent.”
  • explaining that complaint is not preserved for appeal when “the legal basis of the complaint raised on appeal varies from the complaint made at trial”
  • noting that issue is not preserved “if the legal basis of the complaint raised on appeal varies from the complaint made at trial”
  • holding appellant failed to preserve error because she did not “apprise the trial judge that she was complaining about gender-based selective prosecution in violation of her constitutional rights”
  • explaining that objection on appeal must comport with objection made at trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Keasler, Johnson, Keller, Meyers, Price, Womack, Hervey, Holcomb, Cochran

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

Cites

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

Other cases named Lovill v. State

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