Freeman v. State

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

A jury convicted appellant of murder and assessed punishment at ninety-nine years in prison. By six points of error, appellant claims that insufficient evidence exists to support his conviction, that the trial court erred in discharging a juror, erred in denying his motion for instructed verdict, and erred in denying his motion for new trial. We affirm the trial court’s judgment.

The evidence that appellant murdered Alva Lloyd Bell (known as Bobby Bell) was circumstantial. Witnesses testified for the State that they saw appellant and Bell drinking together at a local…