Waffer v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions

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1. ““.. . was then and there a person who had previously been convicted of burglary, a felony, to-wit, the said LEO BUR-BIN RICE was duly and legally convicted on the 8th day of May, A.D. 1961, in the Criminal District Court No. 3 of Harris County, Texas, in Cause No. 88430 of said offense of burglary, a felony, styled the State of Texas vs. LEO BURBIN RICE upon an indictment then and there legally pending against him in said court and which said court had jurisdiction of said offense, and said conviction was a final conviction for which said LEO BURBIN RICE served a term in the Texas penitentiary. “And after the judgement (sic) of conviction in said cause No. 88430 had become final, the said LEO BURBIN RICE on or about the 2nd day of May, A.D. 1963, in said County and State did then and there have in his possession, away from the premises upon which he then and there lived, a pistol.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex Parte Rice

2. “The repeal of a law where the repealing statute substitutes no other penalty will exempt from punishment all persons who may have violated such repealed law, unless it be otherwise declared in the repealing statute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Webb v. Beto

3. ““Absent an allegation in the indictment and proof that the previous conviction involved an act of violence, this conviction cannot stand. The judgment is reversed, and the prosecution ordered dismissed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex parte Moses