James Earl Lemons v. State

OPINION

Opinion by Justice MOSELEY.

Although Darryl Cox erroneously believed that he and Karen Cox had been happily married to one another for some twenty-one years, Karen had been engaged in a clandestine affair with James Earl Lemons (the appellant here), a man Darryl knew and occasionally encountered. After a jury determined that Lemons was the person who had shot Darryl with a gun, Lemons was convicted by a jury of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to seventeen years’ imprisonment.

On appeal, Lemons argues that his counsel rendered ineffective assistance because he…