House v. State

MAJORITY OPINION

EDELMAN, Justice.

Wendell B. House appeals his conviction for involuntary manslaughter on the grounds that: (1) evidence of extraneous offenses was improperly admitted; (2) other prosecutors were allowed to testify as reputation witnesses; and (3) the State did not establish that its reputation witnesses learned of appellant’s reputation from people in appellant’s community. We affirm.

On May 1,1991, James Ebert informed his friend and neighbor, Nathan McLaren, that Don Miles was going to pay him $1,500.00 to burn down appellant’s custom automobile business. Ebert asked McLaren…