Guerra v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
UTTER, Justice.
Appellant was convicted of murder by a jury and punishment was assessed at 99 years imprisonment. We affirm.
In his first ground of error, appellant contends that the trial court abused its discretion by admitting into evidence eight photographs. Appellant claims that these photographs, though taken from different angles, were “duplicative and repetitive of each other and of the victim,” and “... were intended ... to inflame the minds of the jurors and to prejudice the jury against appellant.”
The admissibility of photographic evidence rests largely in the discretion of…
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