Smith v. State

OPINION

ROSS, Justice.

Joe Smith appeals his conviction by a jury for aggravated assault, enhanced by two prior felony convictions. Smith, an inmate in the Mark Stiles Unit in Jefferson County, was accused of assaulting Kevin Hogg, another inmate, with a sharpened piece of metal. The jury assessed his punishment at sixty years’ imprisonment.

In his first issue on appeal, Smith challenges the legal sufficiency of the evidence. In reviewing the legal sufficiency of the evidence, we look to see whether after viewing all of the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational…