context: Hammons cites the State's failure to produce expert or lay testimony concerning the bat's deadliness as fatal to its case in chief. As we have previously noted, expert testimony is no longer a prerequisite to a deadliness finding.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 574 S.W.2d 132, 132
citation_a.parenthetical: whether opinion evidence is required to prove a knife is a deadly weapon depends on the evidence in each case
citation_a.sentence: See also Denham, 574 S.W.2d at 132 (whether opinion evidence is required to prove a knife is a deadly weapon depends on the evidence in each case) (Davis, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 668 S.W.2d 724, 724-25
citation_b.parenthetical: analysis of club as deadly weapon made by comparison to cases involving knives
citation_b.sentence: See id. (one who observes and receives wound from butcher knife is capable of testifying that the knife is a deadly weapon causing death or serious bodily injury); Jackson, 668 S.W.2d at 724-25 (analysis of club as deadly weapon made by comparison to cases involving knives).