Appeals court overturns man's capital murder conviction
Gonzales was convicted in 2008 for the killing of Victor Morales
By Mary Ann Cavazos, Corpus Christi Caller Times
Posted February 4, 2010 at 2:53 p.m.
CORPUS CHRISTI — An appeals court on Thursday overturned the capital murder conviction of a man serving life in prison and ordered a new trial.
Carlos Antonio Gonzales, 25, was convicted by a jury in 2008 in 105th District Judge J. Manuel Bañales’ court of killing Victor Morales, whose wife found him lying in a pool of blood at their home on Feb. 22, 2007.
The 13th Court of Appeals issued an opinion saying that the trial court abused its discretion by not allowing the jury to consider the lesser included offense of murder, a first-degree felony.
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