Santiago Briceno Silva v. State

OPINION

BILL VANCE, Justice.

Santiago Silva pled not guilty to a charge of murder. He was convicted by a jury and sentenced to life imprisonment. He appeals, asserting four issues for review. For simplicity, we will group his points into two issues:

► the court erred in denying his request for a mistrial after the jury saw him in handcuffs, shacMed, and wearing a “belly-chain”; the incident was not “fortuitous” or “inadvertent”;

► the court erred in denying his motion for a directed verdict because the evidence is legally and factually insufficient to support the conviction.

We will affirm the…