Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Raymond Taylor, Appellant v. the State of Texas

January 26, 20002000 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 9

Summary

The Court held that the abolition of the juvenile exception to the accomplice witness rule in Blake v. State applies retroactively to all cases pending on direct appeal or not yet final, and affirmed the judgment of the Court of Appeals. Justice Mansfield dissented, reaffirming his earlier dissent in Blake.