The cops questioned Gant-Benalcazar and were shocked when during the course of the five-hour interview, he confessed to killing Blair. He admitted to being Parlin’s partner in crime and to stabbing his victim in the neck when she awoke while they were robbing her home.
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Because appellant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his conviction, we provide only a general overview of the facts of the case. We provide additional facts as necessary to advise the parties of the Court's decision and the basic reasons for it. See Tex. R. App. P. 47.1, 47.4.
Appellant raises three points of error. In his first point of error, he argues that the trial court abused its discretion by denying his motion to suppress his incriminating statements.
In his first point of error, appellant asserts that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress his incriminating statements.
In his second and third points of error, appellant complains about alleged error in the jury charge resulting, he maintains, from the trial court's denial of his requested jury-charge instructions concerning the voluntariness of his statements. During the charge conference, the following exchange occurred:
Having concluded that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying appellant's motion to suppress and having determined that no error exists in the jury charge, we affirm the trial court's judgment of conviction.