Cowan v. State

REYNOLDS, Chief Justice.

A jury, rejecting appellant Larry Gene Cowan’s defense of insanity, found him guilty of the first degree felony offense of injury to a child, for which the court imposed a sentence of confinement for life. With five points of error, appellant contends the trial court reversibly erred by (1) refusing to quash the indictment for mis-joinder and, instead, remedying it by forced election; (2) excluding appellant’s certified copy of a medical report offered under Texas Rules of Criminal Evidence 803(8)(C) and 902; (3) failing to charge the jury on the offense of voluntary…