Perales v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided June 29, 1971

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · decided 1971-06-29

Relies on Corpus v. State · Gomez v. State · Martinez v. State

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Decided 1971-06-29

How this case has been cited

Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2004 · most notably Kolb v. State (1976), McDonald v. State (1974)

2 federal appellate · 47 state decisions — followed in 11 states

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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¶1OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

¶2The offense is possession of heroin; the punishment, enhanced by two prior non-capital felonies, life.

¶3This is another Mary Hernandez case from Travis County. Each of the grounds of error advanced by the appellant has heretofore been decided by this Court in Gomez v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 461 S.W.2d 422; Arechiga v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 462 S.W.2d 1; Corpus v. State, Tex.Cr. App., 463 S.W.2d 4. Appellant’s fourth ground of error has been discussed in Martinez v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 471 S.W.2d 399 (this day decided) and need not again be discussed. This appellant’s excellent brief in this case has not shaken our conviction that the cases cited were properly decided.

¶4Finding no reversible error, the judgment is affirmed.