Court Opinion

ID: 9776862
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 19:47:11.902652+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:43.770608
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DISSENTING OPINION
MORRISON, Judge.
My Brethren overrule appellant’s motion for rehearing without' written opinion. After further study of this record I cannot bring myself to join in such action. In our original opinion we held the objection to be too general and indefinite. I have now concluded that since the Lopez case is a recent landmark case in our criminal jurisprudence relating to confessions, the objection of appellant’s counsel was sufficient to inform the trial court of his reasons for objecting. See Lopez v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 384 S.W.2d 345. The error is very serious in this case, because, as I see it, the only logical construction of the prosecutor’s question was whether the confession spoke the truth. It would be placing a severe burden upon the trial court to call upon him to rule a confession inadmissible as a matter of law after the accused had testified that the confession was true.
I respectfully dissent.