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Nichols v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc
Sep 18, 1991
815 S.W.2d 732 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991)

Opinion

No. 763-91.

September 18, 1991.

Appeal from Criminal District Court No. 2, Dallas County; Larry Baraka, Judge.

Don Metcalfe, Dallas, for appellant.

John Vance, Dist. Atty., and Pamela Sullivan Berdanier and Carolyn Fitz-Gerald Levin, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION


Appellant was convicted by a jury of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. In his first point of error on appeal, appellant complained of the trial court's failure to make specific findings of facts and conclusions of law as to the voluntariness of appellant's confession. The Court of Appeals sustained this point of error, reversed the judgment after the trial court failed to substantially comply with an order from the appellate court, and remanded the cause to the trial court. Nichols v. State, 810 S.W.2d 829 (Tex.App. — Dallas, 1991). The State has filed a petition for discretionary review and this Court has declined to grant review.

As is true in every case where discretionary review is refused, this refusal does not constitute endorsement or adoption of the reasoning employed by the Court of Appeals. Sheffield v. State, 650 S.W.2d 813 (Tex.Cr.App. 1983). With this understanding, we refuse the State's petition for discretionary review.


Summaries of

Nichols v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc
Sep 18, 1991
815 S.W.2d 732 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991)
Case details for

Nichols v. State

Case Details

Full title:John Nathan NICHOLS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee

Court:Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc

Date published: Sep 18, 1991

Citations

815 S.W.2d 732 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991)

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