CHANEY v. STATE

No. 07-08-0476-CR.

314 S.W.3d 561 (2010)

Phillip Doyle CHANEY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Amarillo, Panel D.

May 27, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Crook, Crook & Jordan, Lubbock, for Appellant.

David W. Hajek, District Attorney, for Appellee.

Before QUINN, C.J., and CAMPBELL and PIRTLE, JJ.


OPINION

PATRICK A. PIRTLE, Justice.

The contention that an injury can amount to a crime only when inflicted by intention is no provincial or transient notion. It is as universal and persistent in mature systems of law as belief in freedom of the human will and a consequent ability and duty of the normal individual to choose between good and evil. Justice Robert H. Jackson, United States Supreme Court1

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