Rodriguez v. State

OPINION

JOHNSON, J.,

delivered the unanimous opinion of the Court.

Appellant was convicted of aggravated kidnapping and capital murder. The jury sentenced him to twenty-eight years’ confinement for the aggravated kidnapping, and life imprisonment for the capital murder, 1 in which the aggravating factor was kidnapping. On appeal, the court of appeals reversed the capital murder conviction, holding that Texas did not have territorial jurisdiction over the offense. Rodriguez v. State, No. 13-00-771-CR, 2003 WL 21939052, 2003 Tex.App. LEXIS 6962 (Tex.App.-Corpus Christi, August 14, 2003). On the…