In two issues, appellant Cleveland Erric Jetson challenges his conviction for aggravated robbery, arguing the evidence is legally insufficient and asserting Batson error. We affirm. I.BACKGROUND According to the complainant, the following events occurred shortly after noon on January 9, … Continue reading
Appellant entered a plea of guilty to credit card abuse. On February 23, 2012, the trial court sentenced appellant to confinement for six months in the State Jail Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Appellant filed a timely … Continue reading
Appellant Danielle Keith Burks appeals his conviction for tampering with evidence on the ground that the evidence is insufficient to support a conviction. We affirm. On June 16, 2011, Officer Greg Clark stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation at … Continue reading
Appellant, Corey Deshun Farrow, appeals his conviction for aggravated sexual assault and sentence of forty years’ incarceration. In a single issue, appellant claims the trial court erred in overruling his objection to the State’s closing argument because the State shifted … Continue reading
Appellant JaMichael Demon Henry appeals his conviction for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. In a single issue appellant challenges the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence. We affirm. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND Appellant … Continue reading
Appellant, Ernesto Gonzalez, appeals his conviction for capital murder. Tex. Penal Code Ann. §§ 12.31(a), 19.03(a)(2) (West 2011). Finding no error, we affirm. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND At approximately 5:00 a.m. on April 27, 2008, Houston Police officers, including David … Continue reading
A jury convicted Jeffrey Marlon Petersen of aggravated assault against a public servant and sentenced him to sixty years’ confinement. Petersen challenges his conviction, arguing that the trial court improperly denied his request to instruct the jury on resisting arrest … Continue reading
After a bench trial, appellant, Marquis Plummer, was convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon[1] and unlawful possession of body armor by a felon.[2] The trial court made an affirmative finding of a deadly weapon on the … Continue reading
Appellant Jewen Latrell Price was indicted for murder and convicted by a jury of the lesser-included offense of manslaughter. On appeal, he asserts the trial court erred by refusing to instruct the jury on three additional lesser-included offenses. We affirm. … Continue reading
Appellant Christopher Bruce Johns appeals his conviction for aggravated robbery, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence and asserting that the trial court abused its discretion by denying his motion to suppress and admitting evidence of his extraneous offenses. We affirm. … Continue reading
Appellant Larry Darnell West appeals his conviction of sexual assault, claiming in one issue that he received ineffective assistance of counsel and asserting in three other issues that the trial court erred in the following ways: (1) excluding evidence relating … Continue reading