MAYFIELD v. STATE

No. 619-85.

716 S.W.2d 509 (1986)

Larry Michael MAYFIELD, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

September 17, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jane Wynegar, court appointed on appeal, Houston, for appellant.

John B. Holmes, Jr., Dist. Atty. and Eleanor M. McCarthy and Jim Peacock, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, Robert Huttash, State's Atty. and Alfred Walker, First Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.


OPINION ON STATE'S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

CLINTON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted as a party to the offense of robbery, and his punishment was assessed by the jury at twenty years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections. The court of appeals reversed and remanded the conviction, holding that the trial court erred in failing to submit appellant's requested jury instruction affirmatively charging on "the defensive issue of independent impulse...

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