State v. Vasilas

How courts have described this case

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• holding that by defining “governmental record” to “includ[e] a court record,” legislature plainly did not exclude other documents
• noting that the legislature has provided the Code Construction Act to assist in statutory interpretation
• recognizing that statutory construction is a question of law
• noting that Beasley relied upon a prior version of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, and that the Texas Legislature specifically amended the Code to make evidence of “unadjudicated extraneous offenses and prior bad acts” admissible at the punishment phase
• finding that a petition for expunction was not a governmental record when the defendant prepared it, but that for purposes of section 37.10(a)(5) it became one once the court received it and he used it in seeking to obtain the expunction
• applying Code Construction Act to interpret articles of Texas Code of Criminal Procedure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).