Hooks v. State

Marshall, Presiding Justice.

George Edwin Hooks appeals from his conviction of the 1982 malice murder of Cynthia M. Driggers, for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

1. In the fourth enumeration of error, the appellant contends that the verdict was contrary to law, contrary to the evidence and strongly against the weight of the evidence.

There was evidence adduced at trial which authorized a rational trier of fact to find as follows. The appellant and the victim had spent most of the day of the murder drinking. The two had been involved in some kind of argument over the victim’s…