Francis v. State

Full title: Douglas Cordell FRANCIS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee

Court: Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc

Date published: Mar 13, 1991

805 S.W.2d 474 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991)

Opinion

No. 099-91.

March 13, 1991.

Appeal from the 122nd Judicial District Court, Galveston County; I. Allan Lerner, J.

Mike Carnahan, Houston, for appellant.

Michael J. Guarino, Dist. Atty. and B. Warren Goodson, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Galveston, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.

OPINION

PER CURIAM.

A jury convicted appellant of murder and assessed punishment at confinement for life plus a fine of $10,000. The Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction. Francis v. State, 801 S.W.2d 548, (Tex.App. — Houston [14th], 1990).

Appellant raises four grounds for review. After careful review we refuse appellant's petition for review. However, as is true in every case in which discretionary review is refused, this refusal does not constitute endorsement or adoption of the reasoning employed by the Court of Appeals. Sheffield v. State, 650 S.W.2d 813 (Tex.Cr.App. 1983). With this understanding, we refuse appellant's petition for discretionary review.