Court Opinion

ID: 9672657
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:58:34.359375+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:30:24.776174
License: Public Domain

MILLER, Judge,
concurring.
While logic and legislative intent compel me to join the majority opinion, I must reiterate that the relationship between *854murder and voluntary manslaughter has been hopelessly muddled by the 1974 Penal Code. As I explained in my concurring opinion in Daniel v. State, 668 S.W.2d 390, at 399, the legislature, in a vain attempt to ensure the 1973 Penal Code was “dress right, dress”,1 abandoned the tried and true method of delineating murder and voluntary manslaughter that had evolved under the former penal code. Until such action is retracted, neither the bench nor bar nor, most importantly, the citizenry, will be served.

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