Morin v. State

OPINION

YANEZ, Justice.

Matías Morin was convicted of murder and sentenced to sixty years in prison. He brings four points of error on appeal. Points one and two challenge the sufficiency of the evidence corroborating the testimony of an accomplice witness. Point three argues that the trial court erred in allowing evidence of extraneous crimes when the State failed to give adequate notice of its intent to use that evidence, and point four alleges error in the admission of a “backdoor” hearsay statement. We hold that the trial court committed reversible error in allowing the hearsay statement…