Ayala v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder. The jury assessed punishment at seventy-five years.

Initially, the appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence. This is a case wherein the State relies in part on the testimony of an accomplice witness.

Viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the State as we must do, the evidence unfolds a sequence of events which eventually terminates in the finding of the nude body of Gloria Sylvia Garcia on the banks of Swan Lagoon near Clear Lake.

Roy Rosales Cavazos, currently serving a 50-year sentence for this…