ERAZO v. STATE

No. 2206-02.

144 S.W.3d 487 (2004)

Alex ERAZO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 16, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas M. Durham, Houston, for Appellant.

Alan Curry, Asst. DA, Houston, Matthew Paul, State's Attorney, Austin.


OPINION

PRICE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which MEYERS, WOMACK, JOHNSON, HOLCOMB and COCHRAN, JJ., joined.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Yet those words, in the context of a criminal trial, must be the right words. Otherwise, the picture from whence the words flow is inadmissible. A photograph is inadmissible under Rule of Evidence 403 if it is substantially more prejudicial than probative. In this case, the trial court admitted...

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