Vernon T. Mixon v. State Texas

Appellant pled nolo contendere to the offense of murder in the strangling death of Andrea J. Lyles, and the trial court sentenced him to sixty (60) years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections. Further, the trial court entered an affirmative finding that appellant used and exhibited a deadly weapon, "to wit: an unknown object," in the commission of the offense. Appellant raises six points of error, each of them pertaining to the finding of a deadly weapon. We affirm.