Esteban Ruiz v. State

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice GARZA.

Appellant, Esteban Ruiz, was indicted for murder; the trial court found him guilty of the lesser-included offense of manslaughter, 1 see TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 19.04 (West 2003), and assessed punishment at twenty years’ imprisonment. See id. § 12.33 (West Supp.2010). By a single issue, appellant contends that the evidence is legally insufficient to support his conviction because the testimony of a jailhouse informant was insufficiently corroborated by other evidence tending to connect him to the offense. We affirm.

I. Background

A. The State’s Evidence

1. Richard…