Man receives 30-year sentence for 2020 murder
A jury sentenced a man June 16 to serve 30 years in state prison in connection with an east Austin murder that occurred in May 2020.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A jury sentenced a man June 16 to serve 30 years in state prison in connection with an east Austin murder that occurred in May 2020.
According to court documents, 24-year-old Jeffery Wayne Garner, Jr. pleaded not guilty before his trial began.
Past KXAN reports said Garner was accused of killing 38-year-old James Lewis Allen Jr. on May 28, 2020, after an altercation.
According to court documents, Garner had a jail credit of 1,115 days, which totals a little over three years.
As of Sunday, Garner remained booked into the Travis County jail.