El Paso Independent School District v. Portillo
January 30, 2023
The 8th Court of Appeals (El Paso) affirmed the lowers court’s judgment by finding that the trial court provided the jury with a legally correct and sufficiently inclusive definition of “incurable imbecility.” The definition used by the lower court was, “A more or less advanced decay and feebleness of the intellectual faculties; that weakness of mind which, without depriving the person entirely of the use of his reason, leaves only the faculty of conceiving the most common and ordinary ideas and such as relate almost always to physical wants and habits.”
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