Reno v. State

OPINION

LATTIMORE, Justice.

Appellant Gregory Wells Reno was convicted by a jury of the offense of murder. See Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 19.02 (Vernon 1994). The jury assessed punishment at seventy-five years’ confinement in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. On appeal Reno raises three points of error contending that: (1) he was denied effective assistance of counsel; (2) the State committed reversible error during its closing argument; and (3) the jury charge was fundamentally defective by failing to include the definition of “reasonable doubt” in the…