Court Opinion

ID: 9682630
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 08:15:01.86999+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:40.514677
License: Public Domain

COHEN, Justice,
concurring.
I reluctantly join the court’s disposition of the appellant’s final ground of error complaining that the prosecutor’s jury argument constituted an improper comment on the failure of the accused to testify. I believe such action is required by the majority opinion in Nickens v. State, 604 S.W.2d 101 (Tex.Cr.App.1980, en banc ). Although I believe the prosecutor’s argument in this case is slightly more specific in calling the jury’s attention to the failure of the accused to testify than was the prosecutor’s argument in Nickens, supra, I cannot say that the difference is great enough to distinguish the two cases. If we were writing on a clean slate, I would be inclined to hold as did the three dissenters in Nickens; however, the law is to the contrary and I am bound to follow it.
I concur in the affirmance of the judgment.