How do judges of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals / Joined 1967 / Served to 1968

James Wesley Dice Jr.

Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

James Wesley Dice Jr. was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1908 · age 118
Tenure: 1967–1968 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Texas Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dice authored 144 published opinions for the court (1956–1968), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Barbee v. State (95 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 61 of these were attributed to Dice by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1968	Barbee v. State	432 S.W.2d 78	95
1968	Crawford v. State	435 S.W.2d 148	70
1968	Schepps v. State· Separate†	432 S.W.2d 926	49
1968	Keel v. State· Separate†	434 S.W.2d 687	46
1968	Rose v. State· Concurrence†	427 S.W.2d 609	42
1967	Charles v. State	424 S.W.2d 909	42
1968	Wilson v. State	436 S.W.2d 542	40
1967	O'NEAL v. State· Separate†	421 S.W.2d 391	39
1967	Broadway v. State	418 S.W.2d 679	38
1967	Acker v. State· Separate†	421 S.W.2d 398	37
1968	Lopez v. State	437 S.W.2d 268	34
1967	Miller v. State	412 S.W.2d 650	34
1968	Perbetsky v. State	429 S.W.2d 471	33
1968	Bass v. State	427 S.W.2d 624	33
1967	East v. State· Separate†	420 S.W.2d 414	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 158 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was James Wesley Dice Jr. on?: James Wesley Dice Jr. was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Sources

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1 year on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).