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Title: Elfunsell Penagraph v. State Texas
Author : Supreme Court of Texas
Release Date : January 23, 1981
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 60 KB

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Appellant has advanced a number of grounds of error including a challenge to the sufficiency of evidence to sustain the conviction and a claim that the State was improperly permitted to impeach a defense witness with "Have you heard" questions when such witness was not a reputation witness. We agree with this latter contention and reverse. In light of the holdings in Burks v. United States, 437 U.S. 1, 98 S. Ct. 2141, 57 L. Ed. 2d 1 (1978), and Greene v. Massey, 437 U.S. 19, 98 S. Ct. 2151, 57 L. Ed. 2d 15 (1978), we shall also discuss the sufficiency of the evidence and shall do so initially.