Goodman v. State

OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This appeal is taken from a conviction for murder. The punishment, enhanced by allegation and proof of a prior felony conviction, was assessed by the jury at life imprisonment.

At the outset we are confronted with appellant’s contentions that the State was permitted, over objection, to improperly impeach three of its own witnesses without the necessity of laying the proper predicate.

The body of the 21-year-old deceased was found in a wooded area of Harris County. He had been cut and stabbed nine times, and had been castrated. His penis had been amputated and…