Hines v. State

OPINION

in which KELLER, P.J., PRICE, WOMACK, KEASLER, HERVEY, HOLCOMB, and COCHRAN, J.J. joined.

A jury found appellant guilty of aggravated kidnapping. Punishment was assessed at twenty-seven years confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division. Appellant argued on appeal that the evidence was legally insufficient to support the jury’s verdict. The Court of Appeals reversed appellant’s conviction. Hines v. State, 40 S.W.3d 705 (Tex.App. — Houston [14th District] 2001). We granted the State’s petition for discretionary review to determine 1) whether the phrase…