Rivera v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WHITE, Judge.
Appeal is taken from a capital murder conviction; the penalty assessed was death. Appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his conviction, as well as the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the jury’s affirmative answers to the two special issues submitted during punishment. He also brings fourteen other points of error. After due consideration of appellant’s contentions, we will affirm his conviction.
Jewell Haygood was an 88-year old widow who lived alone in her trailer home at Duchay’s Trailer Court on Alameda St. in El Paso. She was in the…
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