Smith v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant sought to ask the jury panel whether they could consider probation as a proper punishment in a prosecution for murder
• defendant sought to ask the jury panel whether they could consider probation as a proper punishment in a prosecution for murder
• voir dire questions elicit grounds for challenge for cause as well as basis for use of peremptory strikes
• defendant must timely object to preserve error of failure to comply with requirement of article 36.27
• \incumbent upon a defendant to bring the easily correctable error to the trial judge's attention by objection or formal bill of exception or the acts of the trial court are presumed consistent with\ Article 36.27
• bias against parts of the range of punishment 19 Appendix - Attachment 14 (Reporter’s Record Vol. 27, Pg. 204 to 207 ) -53- is a proper matter

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 6,557×
• Janecka v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-11-27· cited 587×
• Gardner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-03-25· cited 509×
• Barajas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-06-26· cited 390×
• Boyd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-07-03· cited 297×
• O'BRYAN v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-09-26· cited 233×
• Guerra v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-05-04· cited 193×
• McManus v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-05· cited 193×
• Duffy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-06-07· cited 182×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-11-27· cited 179×
• Bodde v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-06-14· cited 168×
• Cockrum v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-09-14· cited 163×
• Hammett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-02-28· cited 163×
• McCarter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-24· cited 143×
• Dowden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-09-21· cited 136×
• Green v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-10-04· cited 133×
• Word v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-06-14· cited 122×
• Faulder v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-30· cited 119×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-10-07· cited 108×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-01-24· cited 105×