OPINION
DOYLE, Justice.
The appellant was assessed a 70-year sentence by a jury after it convicted him of murdering his 88 year old father.
There were no eyewitnesses to the crime. Teodulo Vasquez, the deceased, was found severely wounded at approximately 1 p.m. on February 24, 1979 beside a woodpile at his farm near Richmond in Fort Bend County. He died later that afternoon.
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