Robertson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the intent to rob must be formed before the murder, but that there is no requirement that the wrongful appropriation take place before the murder
• holding that a murder occurs “in the course of” committing another offense if the murder occurs “in an attempt to commit, during the 7 commission, or in the immediate flight after the attempt or commission of the offense”
• holding question of whether the victim had a “greater right of possession” of the illegal contraband than appellant was a factual question for the jury
• stating that intent may be inferred from the actions or conduct of appellant
• “Accordingly, because the report had no impeachment value, its exclusion did not contribute to appellant’s punishment and was harmless”
• affirming capital murder conviction after examining sufficiency of evidence that defendant killed in course of robbing or attempting to rob victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Dewberry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-10-20· cited 2,718×
• Green v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-09-11· cited 1,305×
• Rhoades v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-10-02· cited 959×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-01-29· cited 954×
• Alvarado v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-11-15· cited 953×
• Conner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-09-12· cited 937×
• Lagrone v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-02-05· cited 911×
• State v. Buggs
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-06-28· cited 802×
• Penry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-06-07· cited 713×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-06-10· cited 698×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-04-21· cited 684×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-10-25· cited 672×
• Cantu v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-01-29· cited 612×
• Bigby v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-11-02· cited 509×
• Goff v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-05-22· cited 405×
• Wolfe v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-03-06· cited 343×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-03-08· cited 294×
• Powell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1999-11-04· cited 270×
• SWEED v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-10-19· cited 216×
• Staley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-04-27· cited 194×