Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Ruben Cantu, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee
February 4, 19871987 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 507
Summary
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed appellant Ruben Cantu's capital murder conviction and death sentence, rejecting all six asserted errors including the admissibility of a suggestive photographic identification, the sufficiency of the evidence, the admission of medical testimony, the exclusion of a lighting experiment, the limitation on his Fifth Amendment testimony at the punishment phase, and the request for a free transcription.