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Title: Benito Vasquez v. State Texas
Author : Thirteenth District, Corpus Christi NUMBER 13-91-450-CR Court of Appeals of Texas
Release Date : January 28, 1992
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
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A jury found appellant guilty of the offense of delivery of a controlled substance. The court found the enhancement allegation
true and assessed punishment at twenty years' confinement. By a single point of error, appellant complains that the State's
final argument in the guilt stage was so prejudicial that an instruction to disregard would not have cured the harm. We disagree
and affirm the trial court's judgment. Jury arguments must be confined to four areas: 1) summation of the evidence, 2) reasonable deductions from the evidence,
3) answers to the arguments of opposing counsel, and 4) pleas for law enforcement. Whiting v. State, 797 S.W.2d 45, 48 (Tex.
Crim. App. 1990). Matters of common knowledge may be argued, though they might not be supported by express evidence. Carter
v. State, 614 S.W.2d 821, 823 (Tex. Crim. App. [Panel Op.] 1981); Salinas v. State, 542 S.W.2d 864, 867 (Tex. Crim. App. 1976);
Bella v. State, 792 S.W.2d 542, 543 (Tex. App.--El Paso 1990, no pet.).