Noe Beltran, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee

Summary

The Court held that the evidence was insufficient to support the jury’s affirmative finding on Special Issue No. 2 (future dangerousness), so the death penalty could not be imposed and the judgment was reformulated to life imprisonment; the Court also affirmed that the trial court did not err in its handling of the unanswered special issue. Justice Clinton concurred, and Justices Miller and Campbell dissented on the sufficiency issue.