Artavious Deon Hollins v. State, 01-14-00744-CR

Artavious Deon Hollins was indicted and convicted of murder and tampering with evidence; sentenced to life for murder and 25 years for tampering; this is an appellant supplemental brief challenging the tampering conviction.
Dispute arose after neighborhood confrontations at Casa Nube apartments; multiple residents (including Shae, Derrick Williams, and Andre Lewis) instigated and entered Hollins’s apartment during a confrontation.
A struggle over a gun occurred inside Hollins’s apartment; the gun discharged and Derrick Williams was shot; witnesses agree Hollins was not the initial aggressor and did not intend to shoot.
Police recovered a pink Palmer-frame pistol and clothing (a tank-top and other garments) near the apartment complex; the clothing and gun were found very close together and near where the shooting occurred.
Hollins fled the scene; the defense contends recovered items show he discarded them while fleeing rather than concealing or altering evidence to impede an investigation.

Issue	Plaintiff's Argument	Defendant's Argument	Held
Sufficiency of evidence for tampering with evidence (Penal Code §37.09)	State: items found near scene support that Hollins altered/removed evidence to impair investigation	Hollins: items were discarded while fleeing; no evidence he knew an investigation was pending or intended to impair it	Brief urges reversal—asserts evidence legally insufficient (court ruling not included in brief)

Brooks v. State, 323 S.W.3d 893 (Tex. Crim. App.) (standard for reviewing legal sufficiency)
Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (U.S. 1979) (Jackson sufficiency test: view evidence in light most favorable to prosecution)
Wise v. State, 364 S.W.3d 900 (Tex. Crim. App.) (application of Jackson and credibility deference to factfinder)