Hunt v. State

OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This appeal was taken from a conviction for murder, V.T.C.A., Penal Code, § 19.02. Punishment was assessed by the jury at eighteen (18) years’ confinement.

The record reflects that on the night of October 31,1977, police patrol officers were called to appellant’s home in San Antonio, in response to a report that someone had died there, apparently of natural causes. Appellant, who had made the call to the police, met the officers upon their arrival. He led them into the living room, where the body of Adele Hunt, appellant’s mother, lay on the floor. It was later…