Legal Opinion

Megas v. State

Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)

Decided January 31, 2002No. 01-00-00707-CRPublishedCited by 55 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

TIM TAFT, Justice.

A jury found appellant, Brian Lynn Me-gas, guilty of felony murder and assessed punishment at 14 years in prison. In four points of error, appellant challenges the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence to support his conviction for felony murder, contending the State did not prove abduction and restraint as required to prove the offense of kidnapping. He also asserts a fatal variance between indictment and proof. Finally, he contends the trial court erred by allowing accomplice testimony of extraneous offenses without sufficient corroboration during the…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2000
  2. Cain v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
  3. King v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2000
  4. Santellan v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
  5. Gollihar v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2001

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3Cited by55 opinions

  1. Kennedy v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2006
  2. Jeffery v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2005
  3. David Shane West v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)2013
  4. Kenneth Ramone Dearborn, II v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)2014
  5. Hilburn v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2010

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