Coleman v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. ““Club” is also defined functionally in Section 46.01(1) to include only “instruments specially designed, made, or adapted” to inflict serious bodily injury by striking. Instruments readily capable of inflicting serious injury but not specially designed to do so, such as baseball bats and rolling pins, are excluded; if a person carrying one of them has intent to use them to inflict injury and his criminal design progresses far enough, however, he can be prosecuted for an attempted or completed assault, see Section 15.01 and Chapter 22. (Emphasis added)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jackson v. State

2. “(a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly carries on or about his or her person a handgun, illegal knife, or club if the person is not: (1) on the person’s own premises or premises under the person’s control; or (2) inside of or directly en route to a motor vehicle that is owned by the person or under the person's control.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ortiz