Legal Opinion
Castellon v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)
Decided December 21, 2009No. 07-08-0134-CRPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JAMES T. CAMPBELL, Justice.
Appellant Jose Leija Castellón, Jr., was indicted for theft of property valued at $20,000 or more but less than $100,000. 1 A jury convicted him of the offense and assessed punishment, enhanced by evidence of a prior conviction for burglary of a habitation, at fifteen years imprisonment and a fine of $2,000. On appeal, appellant challenges the testimony of the State’s shoe print comparison expert witness and the legal sufficiency of the identification evidence. We will affirm.
Background
Shortly after 4:00 a.m. on June 26, 2006, Amarillo police…
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