Cooper v. State

GRANT, Justice.

William Herman Cooper, Jr. appeals his conviction for the offense of murder. The jury assessed punishment at life imprisonment in the Texas Department of Corrections.

Cooper contends that the trial court erred in allowing the prosecutor to comment on his failure to call his mother as a witness and by admitting certain autopsy photographs into evidence.

Cooper was convicted of having shot and killed David Dodge on February 24, 1986, in the Cloverleaf area of Houston. He was accompanied at the time by Connie Ship-man and David Hayes. Both Shipman and Hayes testified that Cooper had…