Court Opinion

ID: 9776418
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 19:34:22.757983+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:38.537530
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OPINION
MORRISON, Judge
(concurring in part and dissenting in part).
I concur in the affirmance of this conviction and in that portion of the majority opinion which discusses the invasion of the province of the jury. See the opinion I prepared for the Court in Cordero v. State, 164 Tex.Cr.R. 160, 297 S.W.2d 174.
Further, I agree with the majority and do not conclude that in the case at bar the court erred in excluding witness Yero’s testimony. I cannot, however, bring myself to agree with that portion of the majority opinion which pronounced an inflexible rule which does not permit any psychiatric testimony for impeachment purposes. I do not read the holding of the Supreme Court of California in Ballard v. Supreme Court of San Diego County, 64 Cal.2d 159, 49 Cal.Rptr. 302, 410 P.2d 838, as does the majority. I quote from Ballard, supra:
“Thus, in rejecting the polar extremes of an absolute prohibition and an absolute requirement that the prosecutrix submit to a psychiatric examination, we have accepted a middle ground, placing the matter in the discretion of the trial judge.”
I concur in the affirmance of this conviction but not upon the reasoning set forth in the majority opinion as I read it.