Case Name: Robert Lamar ALLEN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1997-04-30
Citations: 945 S.W.2d 829
Docket Number: No. 526-95
Parties: Robert Lamar ALLEN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Judges: WOMACK, J., dissents.
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 945
Pages: 829–830

Head Matter:
Robert Lamar ALLEN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 526-95.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.
April 30, 1997.
Brian W. Wice, Douglas H. Pettit, Houston, for appellant.
Alan Curry, Asst. Dist. Atty., Houston, Matthew Paul, State’s Atty., Austin, for State.

Opinion:
OPINION ON APPELLANT'S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW
McCORMICK, Presiding Judge.
Appellant, Robert Lamar Allen, was convicted by Harris County's 337th District Court of aggravated robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment. Allen v. State, 899 S.W.2d 296, 297 (Tex.App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 1995, pet.granted); see also V.T.C.A., Penal Code, Section 29.03 (Vernon Supp. 1994) (defining offense of aggravated robbery). We granted discretionary review to evaluate the validity of our adoption of the totality of the circumstances test for probable cause determinations in Eisenhauer v. State, 754 S.W.2d 159 (Tex.Cr.App.1988) after Heitman v. State, 815 S.W.2d 681 (Tex. Cr.App.1991). However, it now appears that our decision to do so was improvident. Accordingly, the appellant's petition for discretionary review is dismissed. Texas Rule of Appellant Procedure 202(k).
BAIRD, OVERSTREET and PRICE, JJ., dissent for the reasons stated in the dissenting opinions in Ex parte Ramirez, 919 S.W.2d 435, 436 (Tex.Cr.App.1996), and Houston v. State, 846 S.W.2d 848 (Tex.Cr. App.1993).
WOMACK, J., dissents.