Smith v. State

ROWE, Justice.

Appellant was convicted before a jury of the offense of murder. Punishment was assessed at confinement for 50 years in the Texas Department of Corrections. In ten grounds of error appellant contends the trial court committed reversible error. For reasons below stated, we overrule all these contentions and affirm.

In his first four grounds of error, appellant complains that the trial judge unduly restricted his rights on voir dire examination to individually question members of the jury panel about four different subjects: (1) materials they had read about the defense of insanity;…