Brooks v. Texas (original by presiding judge keller)
Annotate this CaseAppellant Jessie Brooks, Jr. was charged with aggravated assault. The indictment alleged the underlying assault as assault by threat, with the threat being verbal. The court of appeals held that the evidence did not show a verbal threat and that the nonverbal use of a deadly weapon varied from the allegations in the indictment. In its petition for discretionary review to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the State contended that the nonverbal use of a deadly weapon sufficiently conformed to the indictment. The Court concluded that a rational trier of fact could have found the statement “I need to hit” constituted a verbal threat. Consequently, the Court held the court of appeals erred in concluding the evidence did not shoe a verbal threat, and remanded for further proceedings.
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