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Wasylina v. State

Citations

  • 275 S.W.3d 908
  • 2009 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 298
  • 2009 WL 187831

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that jury could properly convict defendant of criminally negligent homicide even though the State had charged manslaughter and proved a “reckless” culpability
  • holding that, to be entitled to lesser-included offense instruction, some evidence must demonstrate that defendant is guilty only of lesser-included offense
  • holding that the State did not fail to prove criminal negligence because it only proved recklessness
  • explaining difference between whether lesser-included offense instruction warranted and sufficiency of the evidence to prove lesser-included offense
  • ―If the State proves the charged offense, it necessarily proves all lesser-included offenses.‖
  • “If the State proves the charged offense, it necessarily proves all lesser-included offenses.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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

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

Cites

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