ESPERICUETA v. STATE

No. 13-81-342-CR.

649 S.W.2d 336 (1983)

Eleuterio Ledesma ESPERICUETA, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

March 3, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Israel Ramon, Jr., Edinburg, for appellant.

Robert Salinas, Dist. Atty., Edinburg, for appellee.

Before NYE, C.J., and UTTER and GONZALEZ, JJ.


OPINION

UTTER, Justice.

Appellant was indicted for murder. The jury, however, found appellant guilty of voluntary manslaughter and assessed punishment at five years in the Texas Department of Corrections.

Although appellant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence, a brief summary of the facts is necessary to address appellant's contention that the trial court erred in refusing to charge the jury on certain matters. The evidence shows that...

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