Hobson v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

CLINTON, Judge.

The Corpus Christi Court of Appeals affirmed this conviction for murder in an opinion reported in Hobson v. State, 627 S.W.2d 532 (Tex.App.—Corpus Christi, 1982).

We granted the petition for review in order to decide whether the Court of Appeals correctly determined that the trial court did not err in refusing to authorize the jury to find if appellant’s conduct constituted voluntary manslaughter rather than murder. Appellant requested such a substantially correct charge in writing and objected to the failure to give one.…