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Tucker v. State

Citations

  • 771 S.W.2d 523
  • 1988 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 250
  • 1988 WL 129573

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  • recognizing the theory of “adoptive admissions”
  • error in giving instruction under § 8.04(b), supra, in a capital case, thereby limiting jury's consideration of intoxication as a mitigating factor to that which rises to the level of temporary insanity, was invited, since Tucker had requested that very instruction
  • involving punishment-phase charge on voluntary intoxication

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Judges: Clinton, Teague

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