Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “At some point prior to Monday, May 29, 1995, a camera store located in a mall in College Station was burglarized. Eight video cameras were stolen. Four of the video cameras were recovered from various pawn shops in Austin. According to the evidence adduced at trial, a man named “Reggie” and several other men approached Jones at his home in Tunis, a small community located in Burleson County, which borders on the west side of Brazos County, the county where the burglary occurred. ... Jones, who used his driver’s license in completing the transaction at each pawn shop, was arrested and convicted for theft, to-wit: receiving stolen property. See Tex. Penal Code ÁNN. § 31.03(a), (b)(2).”

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

2. “that the property appropriated by the defendant was stolen; the State is not required to prove where the property was stolen. Because we will not require the State to prove more than is required, we conclude there is no evidence that any element of the charged offense occurred in Brazos County and, thus, venue there was improper.”

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

3. “Where property is stolen in one county and removed by the offender to another county, the offender may be prosecuted either in the county where he took the property or in any other county through or into which he may have removed the same.”

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