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 1976 / Served to 1976

Thurman Morris Gupton

Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Thurman Morris Gupton was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1976. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1911 · age 115
Tenure: 1976–1976

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1976	Texas Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gupton authored 14 published opinions for the court (1976–1977), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Granviel v. State (244 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. 3 of these were attributed to Gupton 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
1976	Granviel v. State	552 S.W.2d 107	244
1976	Bouchillon v. State	540 S.W.2d 319	114
1976	Wester v. State· Dissent†	542 S.W.2d 403	84
1976	Leighton v. State	544 S.W.2d 394	70
1976	Powell v. State	538 S.W.2d 617	44
1976	Rasberry v. State	535 S.W.2d 871	37
1976	Lyman v. State	540 S.W.2d 711	33
1976	Maden v. State	542 S.W.2d 189	21
1976	Phillips v. State	538 S.W.2d 116	21
1976	Wiggins v. State· Dissent†	539 S.W.2d 142	20
1976	Williams v. State	542 S.W.2d 131	17
1976	Ex Parte Adams	541 S.W.2d 440	16
1977	Elizondo v. State	545 S.W.2d 453	9
1976	Ex Parte Farris	538 S.W.2d 134	8
1976	Morales v. State	541 S.W.2d 443	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 16 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 Thurman Morris Gupton on?: Thurman Morris Gupton was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1976. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).