Montelongo v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder. The punishment is imprisonment for life.

Appellant contends that the trial court erred in admitting in evidence a tape recording of a telephone conversation between appellant and a police dispatcher, the handle of a fishing rod seized during a warrantless search of his apartment, a statement which was the fruit of the allegedly unlawful search, and enlarged photographs of the murder victim. Appellant also contends that his requested charges on the lesser offenses of involuntary manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide…