Mosley v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that jury was not misled by omission of definition of “bodily injury” because no issue was presented by evidence or arguments to suggest either that bodily injury was in dispute or that there was confusion about what was meant by term
• explaining that if a jury charge fails to include a required statutory definition, the “omission of such definition must still be examined in light of the entire record of the case to determine whether the accused has been harmed by the omission”
• explaining that if a jury charge fails to include a required statutory definition, the “omission of such definition must still be 21 examined in light of the entire record of the case to determine whether the accused has been harmed by the omission”
• finding the omission of the legal definition of “bodily injury” was harmless error where no issue was presented that bodily injury was in dispute or that there was any confusion about what was meant by the term
• finding no prejudice from failing to provide the jury with the statutory definition of the term “bodily injury” where the term was not “a complex or unusual term,” and the legal definition of the term was much like the common meaning of the word
• no harm by the trial court’s omission of the definition of “bodily injury” in the jury charge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Arline v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-12-10· cited 777×
• Drew v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-30· cited 420×
• Montoya v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-28· cited 306×
• McGee v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-02-15· cited 294×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2002-03-27· cited 156×
• Scott, Orian Lee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-10-18· cited 99×
• Corpus v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2000-08-31· cited 95×
• Rowland v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-02-10· cited 63×
• Alexander v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1995-08-03· cited 56×
• Nguyen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1991-09-11· cited 36×
• Caballero v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1996-06-20· cited 35×
• Wilson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1993-05-19· cited 31×
• Parks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1993-02-24· cited 31×
• MacDougall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-01-22· cited 21×
• Willis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1991-04-24· cited 19×
• Martinez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1991-12-19· cited 18×
• Sanders v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1990-02-22· cited 17×
• Lugo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1987-04-16· cited 15×
• Wartel v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1992-05-07· cited 13×
• Graf v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1990-12-31· cited 12×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 6,557×
• McKenzie v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-05-20· cited 454×
• Andrews v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-06-22· cited 103×
• King v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-04-15· cited 6×