Court Opinion

ID: 9858020
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 16:11:59.261257+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:01:24.958379
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MILLER, Judge,
concurring.
Although I am in sympathy with much that Judge Baird’s dissent says about the proper interpretation of Tex. Const, art I, Sec. 16, the nature of what I and the majority opinion perceive to be a substantial right in Texas criminal jurisprudence compels the conclusion that the statutory “right” under former Art. 44.29, V.A.C. C.P., to have the error free guilt stage of a trial relitigated because of an error in the punishment phase, is not substantial. Opinion at pages 587 and 588.
Thus I concur in the result reached by the majority.