Legal Opinion
Morelos v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided May 18, 1989No. A14-87-439-CRPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CANNON, Justice.
This is an appeal from a murder conviction. Tex.Penal Code Ann. § 19.02 (Vernon 1989). A jury found Joseph Alvin Morelos guilty of murder, as charged in the indictment, and the trial court assessed punishment at life imprisonment in the Texas Department of Corrections. Appellant’s five points of error challenge the trial court’s overruling his pre-trial motion to suppress and his trial objections to two State’s exhibits and an allegedly improper question by the prosecutor. We affirm.
Shortly before midnight on November 15, 1985, Robert Norman Dale died from a gunshot…
2Cases cited34 opinions
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