Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Defendant's conviction for criminally negligent homicide is affirmed where the trial court did not err in instructing the jury on a lesser included offense to manslaughter, and the evidence would permit a rational jury to find the requisite mental state for the conviction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/23/2005
• Published 11/30/2005

Judges

• HOLCOMB, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which KELLER, P.J., and MEYERS, PRICE, WOMACK, and JOHNSON, JJ., joined.

Court

• Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joe Roden, Houston, for Appellant., Alan Curry, Asst. District Atty., Houston, Matthew Paul, State's Atty., Austin, for State.