Smetana v. State

HOLCOMB, Justice.

Karl Anthony Smetana (“Appellant”) appeals a murder conviction in which the jury assessed his punishment at ninety-nine years’ imprisonment. He was indicted for intentionally murdering his mother, Margaret L. Hewes (“Hewes”), or by committing an act clearly dangerous to human life which resulted in her death. The fact that he killed her is not contested. He entered a plea of not guilty because of insanity. Appellant complains in three issues that the trial court abused its discretion when it failed to suppress the introduction of a videotape confession, that the evidence was…