Towery v. State

OPINION

Opinion by Justice MOSELEY.

A Bowie County jury found Doshee Swan Towery (referred to as Defendant) guilty of the murder of Phillip Stanley, see Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 19.02(b)(1) (Vernon 2003), and assessed punishment at fifty years’ imprisonment. The trial court entered judgment on the verdict. We affirm that judgment.

During the trial, the State introduced evidence that the Defendant, while in jail awaiting trial, had handwritten the date of Stanley’s murder and the words “forgive me” over a passage in his jailhouse Bible:

He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to…