688 SW2D 847 - Bradley v. State

How this case has been cited

Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably Hall v. State (2007), Marquez v. State (1987)

91 state decisions

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.

MILLER, Judge,

¶1concurring.

¶2While logic and legislative intent compel me to join the majority opinion, I must reiterate that the relationship between *854murder and voluntary manslaughter has been hopelessly muddled by the 1974 Penal Code. As I explained in my concurring opinion in Daniel v. State, 668 S.W.2d 390, at 399, the legislature, in a vain attempt to ensure the 1973 Penal Code was “dress right, dress”,1 abandoned the tried and true method of delineating murder and voluntary manslaughter that had evolved under the former penal code. Until such action is retracted, neither the bench nor bar nor, most importantly, the citizenry, will be served.

¶3. This being the military command ordering troops in a formation to align themselves in perfectly neat little rows,