Legal Opinion
Crawford v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided August 31, 1993No. 01-92-00047-CRPublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*155OPINION
FRANK G. EVANS, Justice
(Assigned).
A jury convicted appellant of capital murder of her husband, William S. (Butch) Nichols, by employing two men, Louie John Brown and Thomas R. (T.R.) Oliver, to kill him. After the jury’s guilty verdict, the trial court sentenced appellant to life imprisonment. We affirm.
On Monday, May 2, 1988, about 8:30 or 9:00 a.m., a gas company repairman found Butch Nichols’ body lying on the floor of his home near Riverside, Texas. The cause of Nichols’ death was a near-contact gunshot wound, the bullet having pierced Nichols’ back, proceeding through his body and…
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3Cited by8 opinions
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