Harold L. Graves, Jr. v. State

OPINION

Jack Carter, Justice

Harold L. Graves, Jr., was convicted by a jury of murder and tampering with physical evidence, for which he received concurrent sentences of thirty-seven years’ and ten-years’ imprisonment, respectively. We affirm Graves’ murder conviction. Because the evidence is legally insufficient to support the tampering with physical evidence conviction, we reverse that judgment of conviction for tampering and enter a verdict of acquittal on the tampering offense only.

I. Background

Graves was awakened by the sound of pounding on the front door of his Fort Worth 1 home in the…