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Title: Kanouse v. State
Author : Texas Court of Appeals
Release Date : January 07, 1998
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 47 KB

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Rhonda Jane Kanouse pleaded guilty to first degree murder. During punishment proceedings, the jury made an affirmative finding a deadly weapon was used and assessed punishment at sixty years' confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Institutional Division. Raising two points of error, Kanouse appeals her conviction. Point of error one claims the evidence adduced during the punishment phase was factually insufficient to sustain the jury's assessment of sixty years' confinement. Kanouse is, in effect, asking this court to conduct a Clewis review of the punishment evidence. This we decline to do. We agree with the Eastland Court of Appeals that Clewis v. State, 922 S.W.2d 126 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996) does not apply to the assessment of punishment. Flores v. State, 936 S.W.2d 478 (Tex. App.--Eastland 1996, pet. ref'd).