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Teal v. State

Citations

  • 230 S.W.3d 172
  • 2007 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 316
  • 2007 WL 676221

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that defendant must \object to any error in the indictment before the day of trial and certainly before the jury is empaneled\
  • holding that defendant must “object to any error in the indictment before the day of trial and certainly before the jury is empaneled”
  • holding that an indictment need only “enough clarity and specificity to identify the penal statute under which the State intends to prosecute, even if the instrument is otherwise defective”
  • holding that defendant must object to any error in indictment before trial
  • holding defendant, by waiting to object until after jury empanelled, forfeited right to object to indictment that failed to set forth mens rea element
  • finding that jurisdiction was properly vested in the trial court even though indictment omitted mens rea element elevating offense from misdemeanor to felony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Cochran, Meyers, Price, Keasler, Holcomb, Keller, Womack, Hervey, Johnson

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

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Other cases named Teal v. State

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