Wooten, Codiem Renoir

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring that causal connection exist between the provocation, passion, and homicide
• noting presumption that jury followed trial court’s written instructions in 9 absence of evidence to contrary
• “Finding our harm analysis thus dispositive, we need not address whether the trial court did, in fact, err not to include the instruction.”
• determining likelihood that jury would have believed appellant acted out of sudden passion had instruction been provided
• court of appeals must address likelihood that jury would have made finding in question
• error analysis not required when harm analysis is dispositive

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).