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Roberts v. State

Citations

  • 273 S.W.3d 322
  • 2008 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1570
  • 2008 WL 5234254

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that any error in the admission of prior conviction for impeachment purposes was harmless when State elicited the evidence during cross- examination and did not mention the conviction in closing arguments
  • stating that the State could have used transferred intent to charge capital murder if Roberts, with the intent to kill, had fired a bullet at Ramirez’s two-year-old child who was present during the offense, but the bullet instead killed the embryo
  • declining to address a component of the defendant's ground for review because he did not present the issue to the court of appeals
  • addressing transferred intent in capital murder case where requisite mental state was specific intent to kill
  • declining to address a component of the defendant’s ground for review because he did not present the issue to the court of appeals
  • addressing transferred intent in capital murder case where requisite mental state was specific intent to kill

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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

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