Tanguma v. State

721 S.W.2d 408 (1986)

Roel TANGUMA, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 13-82-380-CR.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

October 30, 1986.

Rehearing Denied December 11, 1986.

Donald B. Dailey, Corpus Christi, for appellant.

Grant Jones, Dist. Atty., Corpus Christi, for appellee.

Before NYE, C.J., and UTTER and KENNEDY, JJ.

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

A jury convicted appellant Roel Tanguma of murder. He was sentenced to serve fifty years in prison. In December 1983, this Court reversed the conviction in an unpublished opinion by the late, distinguished Justice Horace S. Young. Relying…