Templin v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

McCORMICK, Judge.

The Eastland Court of Appeals affirmed appellant’s conviction for murdering his wife by electrocution. Templin v. State, 677 S.W.2d 541 (Tex.App.—Eastland, 1988). Punishment was assessed at ninety-nine years.

We granted appellant’s petition for discretionary review to consider two issues: first, did the Court of Appeals apply the correct standard in reviewing the sufficiency of the circumstantial evidence in this case and secondly, did the Court of Appeals err when it deemed that remote statements made by appellant when…