Planter v. State

OPINION

in which MEYERS, MANSFIELD, PRICE, HOLLAND and KEASLER, JJ„ joined.

Appellant, William Edward Planter, was convicted of solicitation of capital murder. The jury assessed his punishment at seventeen years confinement. The Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction. Planter v. State, 976 S.W.2d 866 (Tex.App.—Eastland 1998). We granted appellant’s petition for discretionary review on the ground that “[t]he Court of Appeals, in holding that the evidence was sufficient to support appellant’s conviction for the offense of solicitation of capital murder, has seriously misconstrued state law in…