STATE v. SWEARINGEN

No. AP-77020.

424 S.W.3d 32 (2014)

The STATE of Texas v. Larry Ray SWEARINGEN, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 5, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryce Benjet , New York, NY, Philip H. Hilder , Hilder & Associates, P.C., Houston, for Appellee.

William J. Delmore III , Asst. Dist. Atty., Conroe, Lisa C. McMinn , State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOMACK, J., delivered the opinion of the Court in which KELLER, P.J., MEYERS, PRICE, KEASLER, HERVEY, COCHRAN, and ALCALA, JJ. joined.

The appellee, Larry Ray Swearingen, was convicted in 2000 of the capital murder of Melissa Trotter and sentenced to death. We affirmed the judgment and sentence.1 He then filed seven applications for writs of habeas corpus, which were denied. Here, the State appeals...

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