Legal Opinion
Higgins v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)
Decided September 11, 1996No. 06-95-00144-CRPublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GRANT, Justice.
David Higgins appeals from a jury conviction for the murder of his wife, Lisa Higgins, for which he was sentenced to seventy-five years’ confinement. The jury also made an affirmative finding that David Higgins used a deadly weapon to commit this offense.
Lisa Higgins was killed on New Year’s Day, 1993, by a gunshot wound to her head. Testimony at trial revealed that she was shot in her home while only she and her husband, David Higgins, were present. Their young son was asleep in another room at the time of the shooting, and there were no witnesses to the shooting other…
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