Kolar v. State

OPINION

SAM BASS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction of attempted murder. Punishment was assessed at five years confinement.

We affirm.

On July 24, 1983, officers of the Richmond Police Department and deputies of the Fort Bend County Sheriffs Office investigated a crime scene on Thompson Highway in Richmond, Texas. A pickup truck was parked on the shoulder of the road with the driver’s door open. Appellant’s common law husband, Ronald Kolar, lay on the ground near the rear tire, and the complainant, Cindy Janczak, lay in a lot northwest of the truck. Both individuals had gunshot wounds…