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McKithan v. State

Citations

  • 324 S.W.3d 582
  • 2010 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1392
  • 2010 WL 4483511

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding offensive-contact assault is not lesser included offense of bodily-injury assault because State need not establish that contact was offensive to show defendant caused complainant bodily injury
  • applying cognate-pleadings approach to conclude offensive- contact assault was not a lesser included offense of bodily-injury assault
  • affirming lower court’s judgment concluding that trial court did not err in refusing to include instruction on offenses which were not as a matter of law lesser-included offenses of the greater offense
  • affirming lower court‟s judgment concluding that trial court did not err in refusing to include instruction on offenses which were not as a matter of law lesser-included offenses of the greater offense
  • “The relevant inquiry is not what the evidence may show but what the State is required to prove to establish the charged offense.”
  • ―The relevant inquiry is not what the evidence may show but what the State is required to prove to establish the charged offense.‖

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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

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