Legal Opinion
Molina v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided July 13, 1988No. 4-87-00169-CRPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CANTU, Justice.
Appellant was convicted by a jury of resisting arrest, a misdemeanor. TEX.PENAL CODE ANN. § 38.03 (Vernon 1974). Punishment was assessed by the trial court at confinement for thirty days. The trial court’s overruling of appellant’s motion to suppress and the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction are challenged. Accordingly, we review the entire record and view it in the light most favorable to the verdict. We uphold that verdict only if we find that any rational trier of fact could have found the elements of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt. Jackson…
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