Ramos v. State

OPINION

TIM TAFT, Justice.

Appellant, Marco Antonio Ramos, appeals his judgment of conviction for murder. The jury assessed 65 years in prison. We address an issue of first impression in this state — whether it is automatically reversible error for the trial court to deny a requested definition of reasonable doubt applied to a defensive issue at the punishment stage. 1 We also consider claims that the trial court erred by refusing to include instructions on the lesser included offenses of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide and claims of improper jury argument by the prosecutor at…