OPINION BENAVIDES, Judge. This is a direct appeal in a capital murder ease. Late one evening in March of 1989 Appellant forced his way into the apartment of Loretta Stephens, an elderly Lame-sa woman, stole money from her bedroom while she slept, beat her with his fists, suffocated her with a pillow, and raped her dying body. He then placed Stephens’ corpse in the trunk of her own automobile, drove out of…
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