Green v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of murder. Punishment, assessed by the jury, was fixed at 15 years’ imprisonment.

On appeal the Dallas Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction holding, inter alia, that the trial court did not err in refusing to permit the appellant to cross-examine and possibly impeach a State’s rebuttal witness, Esther Randall, as to a pending misdemeanor check charge against her. Greene v. State,1 651 S.W.2d 948 (Tex. App.—Dallas—1983).

We granted appellant’s petition for…