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Stone v. State

Citations

  • 574 S.W.2d 85
  • 1978 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1480

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  • concluding that a prosecutor‘s argument for the jury to consider ―other children‖ who had been sexually abused was a proper plea for law enforcement in the punishment phase of a sexual abuse case
  • concluding that a prosecutor’s argument for the jury to consider “other children” who had been sexually abused was a proper plea for law enforcement in the punishment phase of a sexual abuse case
  • Stone’s babysitter gathered photographs depicting sexual assault from Stone’s residence and gave them to the housing manager, who in turn gave them to the police
  • Stone challenged the admissibility of photos on grounds that they had been stolen by his babysitter
  • same when State asked jury to consider that child victim would have “scars of some sort” and lasting embarrassment from crime of sexual abuse
  • Stone’s babysitter gathered photographs depicting sexual assault from Stone’s residence and gave them to housing manager, who in turn gave them to police

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Judges: Douglas, Davis, Vollers

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