Court Opinion

ID: 9666102
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:05:01.077657+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:29:14.883895
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MILLER, Judge,
dissenting.
In as much as Judge Clinton’s dissent continues the belief that jurors in a capital murder case need a special instruction on mitigating evidence, as aptly set out in Stewart v. State, 686 S.W.2d 118 (Tex.Cr.App.1984) (Clinton, J. joined by Miller, J., Dissenting), I join his dissent to the disposition of point of error number four. We only stopped dissenting to the majority’s steadfast refusal to require such an instruction because to continue to do so was “futile”. See Johnson v. State, 691 S.W.2d 619 (Tex.Cr.App.1984) (Clinton, J. joined by Miller, J., Dissenting).