Owens 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 failure of grand jury foreman to sign indictment does not vitiate instrument and therefore it is permissible for another grand juror to sign indictment in foreman’s stead
• “The failure of the foreman of the grand jury to sign the indictment does not vitiate that instrument. It is permissible therefore for another grand juror to sign the indictment in his stead.” (citations omitted)
• “The failure of the foreman of the grand jury to sign the indictment does not vitiate that instrument. It is permissible therefore for another grand juror to sign the indictment in his stead.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Dinnery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-01-23· cited 416×
• Ex Parte Williams
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-02-05· cited 257×
• Traylor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-02-15· cited 110×
• Galloway v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-03-14· cited 95×
• Thornton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-07-16· cited 89×
• Nwosoucha v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2010-11-04· cited 62×
• Lujan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1982-04-07· cited 46×
• Tatmon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-06-12· cited 17×
• Alridge v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1987-06-02· cited 16×
• Ex Parte Dantzler
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-06-07· cited 16×
• Ex Parte Ashcraft
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-04-26· cited 15×
• Ex Parte Dunn
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-10-18· cited 8×
• Curry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1984-08-01· cited 6×
• Bomer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-12· cited 5×
• Frances Unoka Nwosoucha v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2010-11-04
• Shedrick Joseph Baptiste v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2025-05-06
• James Michael Sotelo v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2025-08-12
• James Michael Sotelo v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2025-09-09
• Jose Alberto Amaya Perez v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2026-06-16