Rodriguez v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

Appellant was charged by indictment with the offenses of murder and injury to a child, V.T.C.A. Penal Code, §§ 19.02 and 22.04, alleged to have been committed on or about July 80,1991 in Bexar eounty. On March 12, *1571993, appellant was found guilty by a jury of the offenses charged in the indictment, and on March 25, 1993, the trial court assessed punishment at 99 years confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division. The Fourth Court of Appeals held that the trial court erred in denying appellant’s request…