MERCIER v. STATE

No. 2-01-088-CR.

96 S.W.3d 560 (2002)

Jeremy Phillip MERCIER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, State.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

November 14, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joetta L. Keene, Arlington, for appellant.

Tim Curry, Crim. D.A., Charles M. Mallin, Asst. Crim. D.A. and Chief of the Appellate Section, Curtis Jenkins, Jay Lapham and Kelly Loftus, Asst. D.A.s, Fort Worth, for appellee.

PANEL B: DAY, DAUPHINOT, and HOLMAN, JJ.


OPINION

SAM DAY, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

A jury found Appellant Jeremy Phillip Mercier guilty of capital murder. Appellant appeals his conviction raising two points on appeal: 1) the trial court erred by denying Appellant's motion for new trial when he presented newly discovered evidence of someone else confessing to the crime; and 2) the trial court erred by refusing to hear the recantation testimony of one of the State's witnesses in Appellant...

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