Contreras-Mayahua v. State

Appellant, Carlos Contreras-Maya-hua, was charged by indictment with second-degree murder as to Adolfo Quiagua Acahua (Count I), and attempted second-degree murder as to Jose Florentino Hernandez-Amador (Count II) for events occurring on October 24, 2006. Following a jury trial, Contreras-Mayahua was convicted of the lesser included offenses of manslaughter (Count I) and aggravated battery (Count II). Contreras-Mayahua now appeals the trial court’s judgment adjudicating him guilty and sentencing him to two prison terms of fifteen years each to run consecutively.

Contreras-Mayahua raises…