Benefield v. State

994 S.W.2d 697 (1999)

Brian Daniel BENEFIELD, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 01-96-01219-CR.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.).

April 1, 1999.

Kirk J. Oncken, Houston, for appellant.

John B. Holmes, Houston, Kelly Ann Smith, Houston, for appellee.

Panel consists of Justices MIRABAL, O'CONNOR, and NUCHIA.

OPINION

NUCHIA, J.

Brian Daniel Benefield, the appellant, appeals his conviction of murder. We affirm.

A. Facts

The appellant is a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. The appellant hears voices, hallucinates, and believes everybody talks about him. According to him, sometimes he…