Carter v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

TOM G. DAVIS, Judge.

Trial was before the jury upon appellant’s plea of not guilty of capital murder. V.T.C.A. Penal Code, Sec. 19.03(a)(2). After the jury found appellant, a juvenile, guilty, the court assessed punishment at life. The conviction was affirmed by the Court of Appeals for the Fourteenth Supreme Judicial District. We granted appellant’s petition for discretionary review in order to examine the Court of Appeals’ holding that the magistrate’s certification complied with the provisions of V.T.C.A. Family Code, Sec. 51.09.

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