Brown v. State

OPINION

ROBERTSON, Justice.

Appellant entered a not guilty plea to the offense of murder. The jury found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter, and the trial court found he had been previously convicted of a felony and assessed punishment at confinement for five years. Issues on appeal concern the sufficiency of the evidence and the validity of the finding that a deadly weapon was used. We affirm.

In his second point of error appellant contends the evidence is “insufficient as a matter of law” to support the conviction. He argues that “[tjhere simply is no evidence in the record that establishes…