Court Opinion

ID: 9676284
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 05:20:03.214031+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:46.971944
License: Public Domain

BAIRD, J.
concurs.
For the reasons stated in Matamoros v. State, 901 S.W.2d 470, 479 (Tex.Cr.App.1995) (Baird, J. concurring), I again object to the gratuitous naming of the decedent in this case. This practice is particularly objectionable in the instant case because appellant forcibly raped the decedent’s nine year old daughter. Therefore, even though the Court’s opinion does not name the child, it accomplishes the same by naming her mother. This is contraiy to our policy in child victim cases. See e.g., Rodriguez v. State, 819 S.W.2d 871, 872 (Tex.Cr.App.1991). For these reasons, I join only the judgment of the Court.
OVERSTREET, Justice.
For reasons I have previously stated in Morris v. State, — S.W.2d-, 1996 WL 514833 (Tex.Cr.App. No 71,799, delivered September 11, 1996) (Overstreet, J., dissenting), I dissent to the treatment of point of error number twenty-two, which avers error in precluding appellant from advising venire-members of the fact that a defendant sentenced to life for capital murder would be required to serve a minimum of 40 years before becoming eligible for parole.