Sanders v. State

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• holding that comment, “[W]e cannot tell you whether this defendant knew that car was stolen or not; we cannot go over there where he sits and split his mind open with an axe and show it to you” constituted improper comment on appellant’s failure to testify
• holding that comment, \[W]e cannot tell you whether this defendant knew that car was stolen or not; we cannot go over there where he sits and split his mind open with an axe and show it to you\ constituted improper comment on appellant's failure to testify
• holding that comment, \[W]e cannot tell you whether this defendant knew that car was stolen or not; we cannot go over there where he sits and split his mind open with an axe and show it to you\ constituted improper comment on appellant's failure to testify

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Koller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-02-05· cited 132×
• Lair v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2008-07-03· cited 89×
• Henson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-12-12· cited 32×
• Minton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1956-01-11· cited 15×
• Brandon Kirk Lair v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2008-07-03

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Green v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1931-12-23· cited 4×