Holford v. State

OPINION

JANE BLAND, Justice.

A jury convicted appellant David Charles Holford of capital murder and assessed punishment at life imprisonment. On appeal, Holford contends that the trial court erred in (1) charging the jury with ambiguous application paragraphs; (2) using a disjunctive jury instruction with a general verdict; and (3) admitting autopsy photographs into evidence. We hold that the trial court did not err in charging the jury and did not abuse its discretion in admitting the photographs into evidence. We therefore affirm.

Facts

David Holford and his co-defendant, Harold Vaughn, 1 were…