Rushing v. State

OPINION

JUNELL, Justice.

Appellant was found guilty of murder by a jury. After considering his plea of true to the enhancement paragraph of the indictment, the jury assessed punishment at sixty years in prison and a $10,000.00 fine. He now brings three points of error, alleging: (1) the evidence was insufficient to corroborate the testimony of his accomplice, Billy Joe Gibbs; (2) the trial court erred in overruling appellant’s objection to the State’s argument at the punishment phase of trial that appellant had used drugs shortly before the time of the murder, and that the jury could consider…