Watson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• jury was not misled by charge, which authorized them to find defendant guilty if he “acting alone or as a party” committed crime, because State proceeded solely on parties theory
• jury instructed on two theories of offense; court held that although the evidence did not support one of the theories, error was harmless
• jury was not misled by charge authorizing it to find defendant guilty if he “acted alone or as a party” because State proceeded solely on party theory
• “Although the evidence was insufficient to raise the possibility of appellant’s ‘acting alone’, appellant was not harmed by the presence of that language in the charge.”
• under Almanza, burglary defendant was not harmed by inclusion of phrase “acting alone” as well as acting “as a party, to the offense” in application paragraph; evidence showed defendant’s guilt as a party, and State’s argument focused solely on that theory
• jury application paragraph that authorized conviction if the jury found that the defendant DO NOT PUBLISH ″acting either alone or as a party to the offense″ committed burglary was harmless under Almanza analysis when there TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Vasquez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-10-03· cited 316×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-12-14· cited 159×
• Reyes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-11-04· cited 94×
• Chatman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-02-03· cited 74×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-07· cited 74×
• Timothy Hutchison v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2014-02-05· cited 39×
• Bruton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1996-05-02· cited 38×
• Guillory v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1994-05-05· cited 36×
• Payne v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2006-05-30· cited 35×
• Reginald Ray Washington, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-10-14· cited 18×
• Carlson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1997-04-10· cited 17×
• Wearren v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1994-06-08· cited 12×
• Boyd v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1989-10-04· cited 11×
• Stephen Jonathon Vogt v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2013-12-18· cited 11×
• Young v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1992-08-25· cited 10×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1986-01-16· cited 8×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1986-09-04· cited 7×
• Cabrera v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1998-01-08· cited 5×
• Stevenson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-07-02· cited 4×
• Rios v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-06-10· cited 1×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 6,557×
• Carrillo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-19· cited 254×
• Ransonette v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-10-06· cited 143×
• Romo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-07-19· cited 137×
• Carrillo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-05-10· cited 133×
• Savant v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-12-15· cited 37×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-11-23· cited 4×