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State v. Toney

Citations

  • 979 S.W.2d 642
  • 1998 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 132
  • 1998 WL 692437

How courts have described this case

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

  • “If there is a total omission of the instruction on reasonable doubt, such error defies meaningful analysis by harmless-error standards.”
  • total failure to give instruction as to reasonable doubt is fundamental error analyzed under federal harmless error rule; however, if partial or substantially correct charge is given, any error therein is subject to Almanza rule
  • only first three paragraphs of the Geesa definition submitted
  • only first three paragraphs of the Geesa definition submitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Price, Baird, Overstreet, Meyers, Mansfield, Keller, McCormick, Holland, Womack

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