Williams v. State
Cases that cite this one
65 later published cases cite this decision. The 25 that cite it most often are listed here.
- Mark Randall Brister v. State (Tex. App. 2013)
- Johnny Rodriguez v. State (Tex. App. 2000)
- Mann v. State (Tex. App. 2000)
- Edwin Harris Mann v. State (Tex. App. 2000)
- Edwin Harris Mann v. State (Tex. App. 1999)
- Matthew Bradley Smith v. the State of Texas (Tex. App. 2024)
- Keith Balkissoon v. State (Tex. App. 2016)
- Pedro Elizondo Martinez, Jr. v. State (Tex. App. 2016)
- Darling Francisco Cruz v. State (Tex. App. 2015)
- James Wayne Walsh v. State (Tex. App. 2015)
- Jeffery Lynn Pruett v. State (Tex. App. 2015)
- Pedro Elizondo Martinez, Jr. v. State (Tex. App. 2015)
- DeAndre Dwight Joseph A/K/A Joseph DeAndre A/K/A DeAndre Dwight Parks A/K/A/ DeAndre Parks A/K/A DeAndre Joseph A/K/A DeAndra Dwight Joseph v. State (Tex. App. 2015)
- Jaci Deanne Elam v. State (Tex. App. 2010)
- Allen William Owen v. State (Tex. App. 2010)
- Drichas v. State (Tex. Crim. App. 2005)
- Drichas v. State (Tex. App. 2004)
- David Drichas v. State (Tex. App. 2004)
- in the Matter of the Marriage of Jeffery Dwight Marris and Kara Jane Mullins Marris and in the Interest of Kaitlyn Mullins, a Child (Tex. App. 2003)
- Rodriguez v. State (Tex. App. 2000)
- Johnny Rodriguez v. State (Tex. App. 2000)
- Glendora Geraldine Luckey v. State (Tex. App. 2000)
- Jason Lynn McKnight A/K/A James Green A/K/A James McKnight v. the State of Texas (Tex. App. 2023)
- Clark v. State (Tex. App. 2019)
- Kendall Jerome Woods v. State (Tex. App. 2016)
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Opinion
OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW
delivered the opinion of the Court.
A jury convicted appellant of the felony offense of driving while intoxicated and sentenced him to fifteen years’ confinement. The Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction but ordered a new trial on punishment holding that the evidence was insufficient to support a finding that appellant used or exhibited a deadly weapon during the commission of the offense. Williams v. State, 946 S.W.2d 432 (Tex.App.—Fort Worth 1997). We granted discretionary review on grounds related to the Court of Appeals’ decision on the deadly weapon issue (grounds one through five) and the remedy it provided (grounds six and seven)..
We have decided our decision to grant discretionary review on grounds one through five and ground seven was improvident. In ground six, the State argues the Court of Appeals erred by ordering a new trial on punishment instead of deleting the deadly weapon finding. We agree. The proper remedy is to delete the deadly weapon finding. See, e.g., Narron v. State, 835 S.W.2d 642 (Tex.Cr.App. 1992). Therefore, the deadly weapon finding in the trial court’s judgment is ordered deleted.
We sustain ground six of the State’s petition, reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeals, and affirm the judgment of the trial court as reformed. Grounds one through five and ground seven of the State’s petition for discretionary review are dismissed as improvidently granted.
Case-law data current through December 31, 2025. Source: CourtListener bulk data.