Drichas, David

• Court: Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
• Decided: December 20, 2006
• Docket: PD-0381-06
• Status: Published

Opinion

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS

OF TEXAS

NO. PD-0381-06 DAVID DRICHAS, Appellant

v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS

ON STATE'S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

FROM THE SIXTH COURT OF APPEALS

BOWIE COUNTY

Per curiam.

O P I N I O N

A jury found Appellant guilty of evading detention and assessed punishment at confinement for 99 years. The Court of Appeals reversed the conviction based on its conclusion that the evidence was factually insufficient pursuant to Zuniga v. State, 144 S.W.3d 477 (Tex. Crim. App. 2004). Drichas v. State, 187 S.W.3d 161 (Tex. App. -- Texarkana 2006).

The State has filed a petition for discretionary review contending that the Court of Appeals erred in its factual sufficiency review and that the factual-sufficiency standard of review is flawed. Recently, in Watson v. State, S.W.3d (Tex. Crim. App. No. 469-05, delivered October 18, 2006), we overruled the reformulated factual-sufficiency standard of review introduced in Zuniga.

The Court of Appeals in the instant case did not have the benefit of our opinion in Watson. Accordingly, we grant the State's petition for discretionary review, vacate the judgment of the Court of Appeals, and remand this case to the Court of Appeals in light of our opinion in Watson.

DATE DELIVERED: December 20, 2006

PUBLISH