Zani v. State

GRANT, Justice.

This Court affirmed Robert Zani’s conviction for the offense of murder with malice (in which he was sentenced to ninety-nine years in the Texas Department of Corrections) in Zani v. State, 679 S.W.2d 144 (Tex.App.-Texarkana 1984). The Court of Criminal Appeals remanded the case to this Court for our review of the trial court’s admission of posthypnotic testimony. Zani v. State, 758 S.W.2d 233 (Tex.Crim.App.1988).

Jerry Mogoyne, Jr. was a customer in a convenience store in Austin in 1967 on the morning that a store clerk was shot and killed during a robbery. The State used…