Weaver v. State

ROBERT L. Brown, Justice.

Appellant Georgia Louise Weaver appeals her capital murder conviction for the murder of her sister, Jeannie Allen, and her first-degree battery conviction regarding her great-niece, Theresa Allen Tessman. Weaver raises four points on appeal concerning sufficiency of the evidence and trial error. We hold that the evidence supporting conviction was substantial and that there was no reversible error. Accordingly, we affirm.

The victim in this case — Jennie Lee Allen, who went by Jeannie Allen — was age 66 at the time of her death. On December 19, 1992, she was admitted to…