CHAVEZ v. STATE

No. 63798.

657 S.W.2d 146 (1983)

Mike CHAVEZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

September 28, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mike DeGeurin, Houston, for appellant.

John B. Holmes, Jr., Dist. Atty., George McCall Secrest, Jr., and Kenneth Sparks, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.


OPINION

W.C. DAVIS, Judge.

A jury found appellant guilty of murder under V.T.C.A. Penal Code, § 19.02(a)(2). The trial court sentenced appellant to thirty years' confinement.

Appellant contends that his conviction is invalid because the second paragraph of the indictment is fundamentally defective in that it lacks an essential intent element. Appellant also contends that the trial court erred in including...

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