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CANTU v. STATE

No. 13-86-436-CR.

733 S.W.2d 382 (1987)

Raymond CANTU, Jr., Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

June 30, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman Burns, Gonzales, for appellant.

W.C. Kirkendall, Dist. Atty., Sequin, for appellee.

Before NYE, C.J., and KENNEDY and SEERDEN, JJ.

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

Appellant Raymond Cantu, Jr., appeals his conviction for voluntary manslaughter. He asserts three points of error on appeal. We affirm.

Appellant's first point of error is that the trial court excluded testimony of the violent character of the deceased. Appellant relies on Dempsey v. State, 266 S.W.2d 875 (Tex.Crim.App.1954), which held that evidence of the violent character of...

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