Francis v. State

Tex. Crim. App.

Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Citations: 922 S.W.2d 176, 1996 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 66, 1996 WL 252692

Decision Date: 5/15/1996

Docket Number: Nos. 0627-95, 0628-95

Jurisdiction: TX

Bluebook Citation: Francis v. State, 922 S.W.2d 176, 1996 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 66, 1996 WL 252692 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996)

More Cases: Tex. Crim. App. decisions from 1996

Lawrence Howard FRANCIS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Judges

CLINTON, J., dissents.
OVERSTREET, J., joins this opinion.

Attorneys

Bruce W. Cobb, Beaumont, for appellant.
B. Warren Goodson, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Galveston and Robert A Huttash, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.

majority McCORMICK, Presiding Judge.

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

McCORMICK, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of, among other things, burglary of a habitation and escape. The Court of Appeals affirmed appellant’s convictions. Francis v. State, 896 S.W.2d 406 (Tex.App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 1995) (not yet reported). We granted appellant’s petition for discretionary review to address the Court of Appeals’ holding that a police officer’s initial seizure of appellant was “a classic example of a valid temporary investigative detention.”

We now find that our decision to grant appellant’s petition for discretionary review was improvident. See Tex.RApp.Pro. 202(k). Appellant’s petition for discretionary review is dismissed.

CLINTON, J., dissents.

Chat with this case using AI

Ask CiteLaw's AI Navigator anything about this case, check whether it is still good law, and see every case that cites it. Sign up for CiteLaw free today to get started.