Hollomon v. State

SHANNON, Justice.

Appellant Edward S. Hollomon appeals from a judgment of conviction for murder after a trial by jury in the district court of Bastrop County. The jury assessed punishment of confinement for forty years in the Texas Department of Corrections. This Court will affirm the judgment.

Over appellant’s objection, the district court admitted into evidence appellant’s written confession. That writing shows that appellant drove a van from Houston toward Austin in the early morning hours of Sunday, June 24, 1979. About thirty or forty miles east of Austin in Bastrop County, he drove into a…