Cortez v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

TEAGUE, Judge.

A jury convicted William Edward Cortez, the appellant, of committing the offense of murder on an indictment which charged him with committing the offense of capital murder. Punishment was assessed by the jury at life imprisonment in the penitentiary. In an unpublished opinion, the Corpus Christi Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s judgment and sentence. Cortez v. State, (No. 13-82-204-CR, October 27, 1983).

The record reveals that this trial was appellant’s second trial. The first conviction he sustained was reversed…