Armfield v. State

Marshall, Chief Justice.

Harry James Armfield, a/k/a Cal Armfield, appeals his conviction of the malice murder of Larry Dupree, for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment.1 We affirm.

The evidence authorized the following findings. Armfield sold contraband drugs in Liberty County. The victim, working as an undercover informant with a drug-suppression team, helped local authorities arrest Armfield in April of 1985 for the sale of marijuana. In return, Armfield, who had told a witness, Jerry Salter, that he and Junior Jackson planned “to get” the victim, hired Joseph Quick to kill him.…