Acosta v. State

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

A jury found appellant, Jose Acosta, guilty of aggravated possession of heroin. The trial court assessed punishment at thirty years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections. By his first point of error, appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to prove possession as alleged in the indictment.

The standard for review of the sufficiency of the evidence, whether circumstantial or direct, is whether any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt. Johnson v. State, 673 S.W.2d 190, 195…