Powell v. State

OPINION

CAMPBELL, Judge.

At a trial held in the 1st District Court of Newton County in May 1991, a jury found appellant, James Rexford Powell, guilty of capital murder. See Tex.Penal Code § 19.03(a)(2). At the punishment phase of appellant’s trial, the jury answered affirmatively the punishment issues submitted to them under Article 37.071(b),1 and the trial court sentenced appellant to death. Direct appeal to this Court was automatic under Article 37.071(h). We now affirm.

Viewed in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdict, the evidence at trial established that on October 6, 1990,…