Fuller v. State

OPINION

Before NESBETT, C. J., and DIMOND and RABINOWITZ, JJ. DIMOND, Justice.

A jury found appellant guilty of the crime of shooting with intent to kill or wound. He has appealed, claiming that the judgment of conviction should be reversed because certain evidence was erroneously admitted and because of the insufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict.

A man named Lester James Brown, also known as Tony Dutra, was the person charged with the actual shooting.1 The state’s theory of appellant’s guilt was that he had hired Brown to do the shooting.

Over appellant’s objection the state…