Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
June 1994
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Nixon v. State · Sutton v. State · Ex Parte Burkett · Guevara v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“.. . The information here in question was apparently drafted in accordance with Branch’s Texas Anno. Penal Statutes, Vol. 3, § 38.03, p. 112. It is not as good a form to follow as the one set forth in Morrison and Blackwell, New Texas Penal Code Forms, § 38.03, p. 59, but a common sense reading and construction of the information in the instant case would show that all of the elements of the offense are included, and the information is not fundamentally defective. The information charges that Jones did intentionally prevent or obstruct his own arrest by use of force against J. M. Smith by striking Smith whom he knew to be a police officer. This was sufficient. To the extent that Guevara v. State, 585 S.W.2d 744 (Tex.Cr.App.1979), is in conflict herewith it is overruled ... 3”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Mathews v. State“"(a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally prevents or obstructs a person he knows is a peace officer or a person acting in a peace officer's presence and at his direction from effecting an arrest or search of the actor or another by using force against the peace officer or another."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Sample v. State“(1) A person (2) intentionally prevents or obstructs (3) a person he knows is a peace officer, or (4) a person acting in a peace officer's presence and at his direction (5) from effecting an arrest or search (6) of the actor or another (7) by using force against the peace officer or another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Sample v. State
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