Spearman v. State

OPINION

DAVID GAULTNEY, Justice.

A jury found Darrius Eugene Spearman guilty of murder and assessed punishment at confinement in prison for fifty years. Spearman challenges the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence to support the jury’s guilty verdict and rejection of his self-defense claim. He also argues the trial court erred in allowing a witness’s statement to be read to the jury. We conclude the evidence is sufficient to support the verdict, and although the eviden-tiary ruling did not strictly follow a Court of Criminal Appeals’ opinion construing the applicable hearsay exception,…