Jose Luis Castillo-Fuentes v. State Texas by The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Jose Luis Castillo-Fuentes v. State Texas

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Appellant was convicted of murder. See V.T.C.A. Penal Code, § 19.02. The jury assessed punishment at thirty years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections. On appeal to the San Antonio Court of Appeals, appellants conviction was reversed in an unpublished opinion. Castillo-Fuentes v. State (Tex.App. - San Antonio, No. 04-82-00547-CR, delivered May 25, 1983). We granted the States petition for discretionary review in order to consider the court of appeals holding that there was fundamental error in the jury charge. We affirm the court of appeals ruling.

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