Legal Opinion
Mays v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided April 28, 2010No. AP-75,924PublishedCited by 314 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
OPINION
2Opinion of the Court · CochranCochran, J.
In May 2008, a jury convicted Randall Wayne Mays of capital murder for the shooting death of Henderson County Deputy Sheriff Tony Ogburn. 1 Based on the jury’s answers to the special issues set forth in Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 37.071, Sections 2(b) and 2(e), the trial judge sentenced Mays to death. 2 After reviewing Mays’s twenty-one points of error on direct appeal, we conclude that they are without merit. Accordingly, we affirm the trial court’s judgment.
Factual and Procedural Background
Appellant was charged with the capital murder of two sheriffs deputies and the…
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