Sherwood v. State

OPINION

HOPKINS, Justice,

(Retired, Sitting by Assignment).

Appellant, Jackie William Sherwood, appeals from a conviction by the jury for murder. See TEX.PENAL CODE ANN. sec. 19.02(a)(1) (Vernon 1974). Punishment, enhanced by one prior felony conviction, was assessed by the jury at fifty years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

The judgment is affirmed.

On April 16, 1985, the body of the decedent, sixty-year-old Homer LaFate Min-yard, was discovered in a rural area in Wise County. Appellant and two others, Johnnie Soule and Mima Jean Hodges, were indicted for Minyard’s murder.…