Huizar v. State

OPINION

LÓPEZ, Justice.

Previously, we considered Vincent Hui-zar’s appeal wherein he complained that his trial attorney was ineffective, in part, for failing to request a reasonable-doubt instruction during the punishment phase of trial. After examining the totality of the attorney’s performance, we determined that the failure to ask for a reasonable-doubt instruction in the court’s punishment charge did not amount to ineffective assistance of counsel in the absence of authority requiring such an instruction. See Huizar v. State, 966 S.W.2d 702, 706 (Tex.App.—San Antonio 1998), rev’d, 12…