Salvador Rodriguez v. State

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice GARZA.

Appellant, Salvador Rodriguez, was indicted with one count of murder, a first-degree felony. See Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 19.02(b)(1), (c) (Vernon 2003). A jury convicted Rodriguez of the lesser-included offense of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced him to twenty years’ confinement in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and assessed a $10,000 fine. See id. § 19.04(a) (providing that a person commits manslaughter “if he recklessly causes the death of an individual”). 1 Rodriguez argues that the trial court committed reversible…