Martinez v. State

Opinion

BRIAN QUINN, Chief Justice.

Edward L. Martinez was convicted of burglary of a habitation with intent to commit theft. He challenges that conviction in one issue, through which he contends that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction because the accomplice testimony was not sufficiently corroborated. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

Background

During the night of April 25, 2003, the home insurance office of A.L. Hawkins, an eighty-one-year-old man, was broken into in an attempt to steal money. Hawkins was stabbed multiple times and nearly died. Appellant had…