Smith v. State

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals · Decided 1998-03-18

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OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW WOMACK, Judge, delivered the opinion of the court in which McCORMICK, Presiding Judge, and MEYERS, MANSFIELD, KELLER, PRICE and HOLLAND, Judges, join. We granted review in this ease to resolve some conflicts in our opinions on that aspect of the law of self-defense known as the doctrine of provocation or provok…

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