Mendoza v. State

OPINION

SEERDEN, Justice.

A jury found appellant guilty of murder and assessed her punishment at forty-five years in prison. In ten points of error, appellant complains about the admission of hearsay evidence, the sufficiency of the evidence, the prosecutor’s opening statement, his closing argument at the guilt phase, and his closing argument at the punishment phase. We will sustain two of appellant’s complaints regarding the prosecutor’s argument at the punishment phase of trial and will reverse and remand for a new punishment hearing.

We will first address appellant’s sufficiency challenge…