Ward 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 when indictment is not physically amended on its face, amendment is not effective and original indictment language prevails
• stating that because the Legislature did not testify regarding the amendment process, we should not \frustrate legislative intent by applying a hypertechnical interpretation to the term.\
• holding evidence insufficient under indictment when State's attempted amendment to indictment failed
• remanding with order of acquittal because evidence insufficient to support conviction under original indictment
• remanding with order of acquittal because evidence insufficient to support conviction under original indictment
• “Even if the motion sufficiently apprised appellant of the accusation against him, it would be insufficient under state constitutional provisions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Gollihar v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-05-16· cited 1,349×
• Rojas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-09-23· cited 428×
• Byrd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-03-30· cited 373×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-11-26· cited 356×
• Grunsfeld v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-10-28· cited 267×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-01-12· cited 261×
• Riney v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-10-04· cited 260×
• Eastep v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-02-05· cited 180×
• Alford v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-11-24· cited 155×
• State v. Muller
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-04-01· cited 132×
• Stevens v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-01-25· cited 117×
• Bowden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2005-05-26· cited 85×
• Price v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-11-03· cited 61×
• Phelps v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 1999-07-29· cited 60×
• Valenti v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2001-06-14· cited 54×
• Westfall v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1998-09-16· cited 51×
• Wynn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-11-03· cited 51×
• Barfield v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2006-09-27· cited 47×
• Aguilera v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2002-02-06· cited 47×
• Cesar Gomez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-01-23· cited 41×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Studer v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-21· cited 503×
• Patterson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-03-08· cited 417×
• Dillehey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-06-19· cited 156×
• Benoit v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-05-25· cited 123×
• State v. Murk
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-04-17· cited 89×
• Camacho v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-02-15· cited 83×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-03-26· cited 67×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-12-07· cited 47×
• Voelkel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-11-21· cited 47×
• Cuesta v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1988-12-28· cited 16×
• Rent v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-18· cited 15×
• Baldridge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1959-02-04· cited 14×
• Rent v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1989-05-30· cited 11×
• Bartley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1990-02-22· cited 10×
• Flores v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1917-11-07· cited 9×
• Etchieson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1983-11-16· cited 7×
• Ward v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1991-01-23· cited 1×