Legal Opinion
Powell v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)
Decided December 4, 2002No. 08-01-00406-CRPublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DON WITTIG, Justice (Assigned).
Deloris Gene Powell appeals her capital murder convictions of Emmanuel Gillens, 78, as well as his wife Nellie Gillens, 73. In three issues, she challenges the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence and the admission of alleged hearsay evidence from the child Frederick, made to his therapist. We will affirm.
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The bodies of the Gillens were found by police on a Wednesday. A neighbor saw lights on and heard a banging noise from the Gillens’ home, early Tuesday morning. Mr. Gillens’ body had been stabbed three times plus he had some twenty incised…
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