Velasquez v. State

OPINION

SEERDEN, Justice.

Appellant Armando Velasquez was found guilty by a jury of the murder of Guadalupe Guartuche. The trial court assessed punishment at 45 years confinement. Appellant brings three points of error on appeal. We affirm.

Velasquez, Guartuche, and several others in a small group had been in a garage drinking beer and sniffing paint on the night of the murder, sometime in late 1987 or early 1988. Velasquez and Guartuche then began to argue and fight about an earlier traffic accident in which Velasquez’ sister had been killed. Others in the group broke up the fight, but…