Estes v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder with malice. Punishment was assessed by the jury at one hundred years.

Appellant was convicted of shooting to death Larry Ronald Garland, the night clerk of a U-Tot-Em store, in Houston, in the early morning hours of November 5, 1971. The State relied, in part, upon appellant’s written confession. Appellant testified at trial and admitted shooting the deceased but claimed he did so in self-defense.

Appellant first challenges the sufficiency of the evidence. He urges that, as a matter of law, he shot the deceased in…