Court Opinion

ID: 9646444
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 13:00:08.926917+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:25:46.064711
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BUTTS, Justice,
concurring.
I concur only because a majority of the Court of Criminal Appeals, in Schmidt v. State, 641 S.W.2d 244 (Tex.Cr.App.1982) and Evans v. State, 606 S.W.2d 880 (Tex.Cr.App.1980), have addressed this contention and sustained it. It is my belief that the application paragraph in the charge does fairly require the jury to consider all the elements of the offense of engaging in organized criminal activity. I agree with the dissenting opinion of Judge Clinton in Hill v. State, 640 S.W.2d 879 (Tex.Cr.App.1982). Evans, supra, and its progeny should be overruled.