Legal Opinion
Ochoa v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)
Decided June 1, 1983No. 04-81-00393-CRPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CANTU, Justice.
On July 17, 1981, a Frio County jury found Vicente Ochoa guilty of intentionally and knowingly causing the death of Nieves Segovia, Jr., by shooting him with a gun. See, art. 19.02(a)(1), Tex.Penal Code Ann. (Vernon 1974). The trial court set his punishment at 30 years’ confinement in the State penitentiary. Ochoa’s only ground of error is that the trial court abused its discretion in not granting him a new trial based on newly available evidence.
Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict, the record reflects that at 12:30 a.m., on March 8, 1981,…
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