Ex parte Hill

OPINION

Opinion by Justice Francis

Anthony Hill pleaded guilty to shooting a man during a robbery and was sentenced to forty-five years in prison. Months later, the complainant died, allegedly from complications of the gunshot wound he received during the aggravated robbery. Thereafter, the State indicted Hill for capital murder.

Hill filed an application for writ of habe-as corpus in which he asserted, among other things, violations of the double jeopardy protections afforded by the United States and Texas constitutions.1 Specifically, he argued his, subsequent prosecution for capital murder…