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Wood v. State

Citations

  • 515 S.W.2d 300
  • 1974 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1929

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that the purpose of arraignment has already been served in most instances when it has been delayed until both sides announce ready at trial
  • holding the search appropriate where “limited to a ‘pat down’”
  • distinguishing legal standard justifying initial detention from legal authority to conduct “frisk”
  • distinguishing legal standard justifying initial detention from legal authority to conduct “frisk”
  • distinguishing legal standard justifying initial detention from legal authority to conduct “frisk”
  • automobile passenger just as subject to a reasonable stop and to a reasonable frisk as a driver or a pedestrian

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Judges: Onion, Douglas, Odom

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