Quevedo v. State

OPINION

O’CONNOR, Justice.

A jury found the appellant, Christopher Sean Quevedo, an inmate at Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, guilty of the offense of possession of a deadly weapon in a penal institution. The trial judge assessed punishment at seven-years confinement. We affirm.

After a strip search, the appellant was found in possession of a sharpened metal object, called a “shank.” Two employees of TDCJ testified the shank’s only purpose would be to either kill or bodily harm another person.

1. Sufficiency of the evidence

In point of error one, the appellant argues…