Legal Opinion

Silvestre Cortez Romero v. State

Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)

Decided June 11, 2013No. 14-12-00674-CRPublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

JEFFREY V. BROWN, Justice.

Appellant Silvestre Cortez Romero was convicted of murder and sentenced to twenty years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The appellant challenges his conviction, asserting that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict, and challenging the trial court’s assessment of a particular amount of court costs. We modify the trial court’s judgment to delete the specific amount of costs, and affirm the judgment as modified.

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On January 17, 1990, Nivar Romero, the complainant, along with his wife and two children, his…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Mosley v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1998
  3. Isassi v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2010
  4. Perry v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 2012
  5. Gear v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2011

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3Cited by18 opinions

  1. Kelvin Houston A/K/A Kevin Houston v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 2nd District (Fort Worth)2013
  2. Ashtin Lawatha Johnson v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)2014
  3. Romero, Silvestre CortezCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2014
  4. Carl Lee Smith v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)2015
  5. Carl Wade Curry v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)2014

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