Martinez v. State

OPINION

BUTTS, Justice.

A jury convicted appellant of murder and assessed punishment at fifteen years confinement. Appellant raises five points of error, complaining of the sufficiency of the evidence, admission of evidence of extraneous offenses, and the court’s refusal to submit a special issue asking the jury to make a specific finding of use of a deadly weapon. We reform the judgment to reflect that the jury made a finding of use of a deadly weapon. We affirm the judgment as reformed.

Jesse Garza and the victim, Luis Eduardo (Eddie) Garza, returned to Jesse’s house in Laredo from a trip to…