Lavallas v. State

OPINION

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment assessed by the jury, SO years.

The grounds of error complain: (1) that the evidence is insufficient to support the jury’s finding that the killing was with malice aforethought; (2) that the trial court reversibly erred in admitting a confession of appellant; and (3) that the judgment of conviction is void because two different judges presided, one on the main trial and another at the punishment hearing.

The grounds of error will be considered in reverse order.

Judge Wendell Odom presided at the trial on the issue of guilt.…