Tuffiash v. State

OPINION

LOPEZ, Justice.

Charles Mark Tuffiash (appellant) has filed a pro se motion to abate the appeal and remand the case to the trial court so that he may file an out-of-time motion for new trial. Fred Zain testified as the State’s forensic serologist during appellant’s trial. Appellant asserts that new evidence exists which raises serious questions of whether Mr. Zain gave perjured testimony during the Tuffiash trial and whether the State knew about such perjured testimony.

Appellant was indicted for murdering his former wife, Susan Tuffiash, by striking her with a hammer on February 28,…