Prystash v. State

in which McCORMICK, P.J., and MANSFIELD, KELLER, and KEASLER, JJ., joined.

The appellant, who had agreed to murder Robert Fratta’s wife for remuneration, engaged Howard Guidry to do the shooting. He provided Guidry with a gun, and on November 9, 1994, he transported Gui-dry to and from Fratta’s house where the lolling was done. The appellant was convicted of capital murder in July 1996. Penal Code § 19.03(a). Pursuant to the jury’s answers to the special issues set forth in Code of Criminal Procedure article 37.071, sections 2(b) and 2(e), the trial judge sentenced the appellant to death.…