MIRANDA v. STATE

No. 13-86-523-CR.

739 S.W.2d 473 (1987)

Serapio MIRANDA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

October 8, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfredo Jimenez, Corpus Christi, for appellant.

Grant Jones, Corpus Christi, for appellee.

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


OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

Appellant was charged with murder. The jury found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter and assessed punishment at twenty years' confinement with a $10,000.00 fine. As his sole point of error, appellant contends that the trial court should have charged the jury on criminally negligent homicide.

There is conflicting evidence concerning the sequence of events leading to the death of John Andrew Mendoza. According to appellant...

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