Tiede v. State

OPINION

COCHRAN, J.,

delivered the unanimous opinion of the Court.

Appellant became a companion to the elderly and recently widowed Mrs. Marjorie Nugent of Carthage, Texas, in 1990. In 1993, the forty-year-old appellant left his job at the Hawthorn Funeral Home to work full-time for Mrs. Nugent. Appellant attended to Mrs. Nugent’s personal needs and they shopped and traveled together extensively. In November 1996, Mrs. Nu-gent was reported missing. In the course of investigating her disappearance, the Pa-nola County Sheriff talked to appellant on several occasions. Appellant first said that Mrs.…