Legal Opinion
Nesbitt v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)
Decided January 14, 1998No. 09-96-147 CRPublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WALKER, Chief Justice.
A jury convicted Angelo Nesbitt of murdering a fellow prison inmate, found the indictment’s enhancement allegations to be true and assessed punishment at confinement for forty-eight years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division. The judge ordered the sentence to be served consecutively to the seventy-five year sentence Nesbitt was already serving for aggravated robbery. His brief presents five points of error.
Points of error one through four challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict, as charged to the jury:
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2Cases cited13 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Kotteakos v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Clewis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1996
- Malik v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
- King v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
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3Cited by15 opinions
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- Wheaton v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2004
- Gonzalez v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)2001
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