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Pennington v. State

Citations

  • 697 S.W.2d 387
  • 1985 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1695

How courts have described this case

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  • stating that objection to charge must comport with contention on appeal or nothing is preserved for appellate review
  • requiring that defendant “distinctly specify! ] each ground of objection” to charge
  • “It is clear then that a general objection which does not distinctly specify the claimed error in the charge is not sufficient to preserve error.”
  • A[Article 36.14] is mandatory and there must be strict compliance with its provisions to warrant review.@
  • \[Article 36.14] is mandatory and there must be strict compliance with its provisions to warrant review.\
  • “Error presented on appeal must be the same as the objection raised before the trial court.”

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Judges: Onion, Clinton, Teague, Miller

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