Weber v. State

OPINION

BURGESS, Justice.

A jury convicted George Andre Weber of the lesser included offense of murder, on an indictment for capital murder, and assessed punishment at eighty-five years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division. Appellant raises seven points of error.

Point of error one contends the trial court erred in conducting a portion of the trial in the absence of appellant. The court recessed after general voir dire, then reconvened to hear excuses from venirepersons who claimed they could not serve. It appears that appellant was not present when…