Legal Opinion
Gill v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided December 30, 1998No. 09-97-530CRPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BURGESS, Justice.
A jury found Laura Jan Gill guilty of aggravated assault. The trial court sentenced her to thirty-five years’ confinement in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Gill appeals bringing three points of error.
In her first point of error, Gill alleges the evidence was legally insufficient to sustain her conviction. The standard of review for legal sufficiency is “whether after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Malik v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
- Matson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1991
- Sterling v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1990
- Robbins v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)1993
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