Velazquez v. State

OPINION

LESLIE B. YATES, Justice.

A jury found appellant Juan Domingo Velazquez guilty of murder and assessed punishment at forty-five years’ imprisonment. In three issues, appellant challenges the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence supporting the jury’s negative finding on the punishment issue of sudden passion and claims he is entitled to a new trial because the court reporter did not record some of the bench conferences during the trial. We affirm.

Background

Appellant shot and killed Rudolph Dorsey, an apartment complex security guard, while Dorsey was on duty on May 24, 2005.…