Tapps v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that timing is an essential element of the offense of being a felon in possession of a firearm
• holding eyewitnesses’ testimony purporting to have seen defendant with firearm sufficient to prove possession even though firearm was never recovered
• holding eye-witnesses’ testimony purporting to have seen defendant with firearm sufficient to prove possession
• holding eye-witnesses’ testimony purporting to have seen defendant with firearm sufficient to prove possession
• holding prior state-jail felony may be used to secure later conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon and stating “state-jail felonies are felonies unless the language of the particular statute in question indicates otherwise”
• concluding appellant’s previous conviction for a state-jail-felony offense provided sufficient evidence to satisfy the State’s burden that appellant had been State’s Exhibit No. 12. 15 convicted of a felony under Section 46.04(a)(1) of the Texas Penal Code

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Crabtree, Mark Alan
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-10-31· cited 147×
• Mahaffey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-06-30· cited 89×
• Baird v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-05-08· cited 85×
• Boston, Ronald Glen
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-10-09· cited 81×
• O'Brien v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2018-05-02· cited 55×
• Justin Laroy Fagan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2012-02-21· cited 48×
• State v. Bennett
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-11-27· cited 34×
• Overshown v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2010-12-02· cited 31×
• McGuire v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-05-10· cited 28×
• Miles, Kojuan J.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-11-16· cited 25×
• Krause v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-05-08· cited 22×
• Martinez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-07-27· cited 21×
• Ariel Medina v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-08-08· cited 20×
• Robert Lyonell Phillips v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2013-03-13· cited 20×
• Philip Wade Ellison v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-03-25· cited 14×
• Con Mahn Pham v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2015-05-14· cited 14×
• Robert Saldana, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2013-12-06· cited 12×
• Mims v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2010-10-14· cited 10×
• Garrett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-06-20· cited 9×
• Reinke v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2011-10-19· cited 6×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Boykin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-10-09· cited 1,829×
• State v. Hardy
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-01-14· cited 312×
• Coit v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-05-15· cited 133×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-05-14· cited 124×
• State v. Mason
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-10-28· cited 121×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-03-07· cited 120×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-06-27· cited 85×
• Tapps v. State Tex.
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2008-06-06· cited 31×
• Hobyl v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-06-07· cited 25×
• Ragon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-01-09· cited 10×