Speering v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

W.C. DAVIS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of the stabbing and strangulation murder of his wife. Punishment was assessed at twenty years in the Texas Department of Corrections 1 and a fine of $10,000.00. On direct appeal the conviction was affirmed, but the Court of Appeals deleted the affirmative finding contained in the judgment. Steering v. State, 763 S.W.2d 801 (Tex.App.-Texarkana 1988). The Court of Appeals based its holding on the ground appellant did not have sufficient notice of the State’s intent to seek a deadly weapon…