95 Tex. Crim. 629 - Briggs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
April 1955
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“It must reasonably appear by the acts or by words coupled with the acts of the person killed that it was the purpose and intent of such person to commit one of the offenses above named.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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