Victor v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that evidence of brandishing motions can be offered to establish that a knife is a deadly weapon
• concluding that, although knife was not produced, testimony established that knife was deadly weapon
• stating that pocket knives are not deadly weapons, per se, because they are “manifestly designed and made for purposes other than inflicting death or serious bodily injury”
• noting that the pocket knife was not introduced into evidence, there was no evidence describing the knife, and a police officer's opinion testimony that a pocket knife is a deadly weapon was insufficient to establish that it was capable of causing death or serious bodily injury
• noting that the pocket knife was not introduced into evidence, there was no evidence describing the knife, and a police officer’s opinion testimony that a pocket knife is a deadly weapon was insufficient to establish that it was capable of causing death or serious bodily injury
• noting that the pocket knife was not introduced into evidence, there was no evidence describing the knife, and a police officer’s opinion testimony that a pocket knife is a deadly weapon was insufficient to establish that it was capable of causing death or serious bodily injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Nickerson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2002-01-23· cited 99×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2004-02-23· cited 61×
• Magana v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2007-06-06· cited 39×
• Rivera v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2008-08-13· cited 33×
• Kraus v. Kraus
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1985-06-25· cited 17×
• in the Matter of D.L., a Juvenile
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2005-02-23· cited 17×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1995-11-30· cited 10×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-08-31· cited 5×
• Rose v. Johnson
  S.D. Texas· 2001-03-26· cited 1×
• In Re DL
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2005-02-23
• Deigo Rojas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-08-28
• Wenford Lettsome v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-12-22
• Elton Anthony Branch v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2015-08-10
• Rodriguez, Lawrence v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2003-07-10
• Terrance Jarrod Butler v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2004-03-18
• Billy Ray Risley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-06-09
• Delicia Shantell Gamble v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-01-13
• Carlos Roman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-10-26
• William Tavares Dunn v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2010-12-16
• Olin Jeffries Nelson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1996-08-28