Court Opinion

ID: 9776748
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 19:43:42.302043+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:42.219239
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DOUGLAS, Judge
(dissenting).
After further consideration, it appears that there is no distinction in the cases cited in the dissenting opinion by Presiding Judge Onion and in the present case. I join in that dissent and add the following comments.
In Rangel v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 464 S.W.2d 468, the writer expressed the opinion that there was no need for such a strict rule concerning stipulations that the Legislature had adopted. After this and after the present case was tried, the Legislature changed the rule. Before the statute was amended nearly every member of the Court authored an opinion holding in substance the same thing that was held in the Rangel case.
Such was the law, as enacted by the Legislature, when the present case was tried. Tt should be followed in each case tried before it was changed even though, as individuals, we might not want to reach that result.