Court Opinion

ID: 9777137
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Date Created: 2023-08-29 20:00:19.061016+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:49.378134
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ROBERTS, Judge,
dissenting.
I dissent for the reasons stated in Part II of my dissenting opinion in Shippy v. State (Tex.Cr.App., No. 53,831, delivered April 27, 1977). Furthermore, the fact that the jury is instructed that the State must prove each individual punishment element beyond a reasonable doubt does not cure the error of refusing a request for a circumstantial evidence charge when direct evidence of the main fact in issue is absent. This is the federal rule, United States v. Rodriguez, 523 F.2d 738 (5th Cir. 1975), which is not followed in Texas.