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EARNEST v. STATE

No. 09-88-333 CV.

791 S.W.2d 654 (1990)

David Ray EARNEST, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

June 20, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Hall, Jr., Conroe, for appellant.

Peter Speers, III, Dist. Atty., Thomas D. Glenn, Asst. Dist. Atty., Conroe, for state.

OPINION

BURGESS, Justice.

A jury found David Ray Earnest guilty of murder and assessed punishment at confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections for life and a $10,000 fine. Appellant urges two points of error.

Point of error one avers a blood sample was improperly admitted into evidence. Appellant claims the state failed to establish the chain of custody of the sample of the victim's blood. The victim, Lucinda S. Giles, was appellant's common...

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