Villarreal v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of capital murder following a change of venue from Nuec-es County. The punishment was assessed at death.

Appellant contends that the trial court erred: (1) in refusing to instruct the jury that two witnesses were accomplice witnesses as a matter of law, (2) in finding a deaf witness was competent to testify, (3) in refusing to instruct the jury concerning evidence of threats to witnesses, (4) in failing to grant a mistrial after an officer testified that a confidential informer’s life had been threatened, (5) in admitting evidence unlawfully obtained…