Vasquez v. State

*409OPINION

DOYLE, Justice.

The appellant was assessed a 70-year sentence by a jury after it convicted him of murdering his 88 year old father.

There were no eyewitnesses to the crime. Teodulo Vasquez, the deceased, was found severely wounded at approximately 1 p.m. on February 24, 1979 beside a woodpile at his farm near Richmond in Fort Bend County. He died later that afternoon.

In the first of three grounds of error, appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he killed his father.

Because there is no variance between the state’s and appellant’s…