MESTIZA v. STATE

No. 13-93-704-CR.

923 S.W.2d 720 (1996)

Rufino Salinas MESTIZA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

April 11, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry Warner, Brownsville, for appellant.

Luis V. Saenz, District and County Attorney, Robert H. Moore, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Brownsville, for appellee.

Before SEERDEN, C.J., and DORSEY and FEDERICO G. HINOJOSA, Jr., JJ.


OPINION

SEERDEN, Chief Justice.

A jury found appellant guilty of murder and assessed his punishment at forty years in prison. Appellant raises sixteen points of error. We affirm.

By point one, appellant contends that the prosecutor fundamentally erred during jury argument when she asked the jury to consider parole in assessing punishment. Appellant did not object when the argument was made. Failure to object to improper jury argument generally waives...

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