Legal Opinion
Davis v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)
Decided August 9, 2006No. 07-03-0457-CRPublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JAMES T. CAMPBELL, Justice.
Clayton Edward Davis, Jr., appeals his conviction for the murder of a City of Beaumont police officer. Punishment was assessed at life imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. We affirm.
The basic facts surrounding the events giving rise to appellant’s prosecution are undisputed. Elizabeth Thomas lived on Cordova Street in Beaumont. Her father Earl Wright lived a few houses away. Thomas had been dating appellant for several months. On the evening of September 6, 2002, appellant left Thomas’s house shortly after she came home from work. He returned over an hour later…
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