ELLIOTT v. STATE

No. 08-81-00073-CR.

637 S.W.2d 509 (1982)

Jerry Lavon ELLIOTT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, El Paso.

July 28, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ederer, Holmes, Neill & Broaddus, Ronald F. Ederer, El Paso, for appellant.

Steve W. Simmons, Dist. Atty., R. Bradford Stiles, Asst. Dist. Atty., El Paso, for appellee.

Before STEPHAN F. PRESLAR, C. J., and OSBORN and SCHULTE, JJ.


OPINION

SCHULTE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction for voluntary manslaughter. The jury assessed punishment at twenty years confinement. We affirm.

The sole issue raised on appeal asserts that the trial court erred in refusing Appellant's requested charge on the lesser included offense of criminally negligent homicide.

Appellant (forty-five years of age) and the victim (twenty years of age) began living together in September 1979...

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